“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case, you fail by default.”

~ J.K. Rowling

“I try to take one day at a time but sometimes several days attack me at once.”

~ Ashleigh Brilliant

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”

~ Henry David Thoreau

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”

~ Benjamin Franklin

“Solutions nearly always come from the direction you least expect, which means there’s no point trying to look in that direction because it won’t be coming from there.”

~ Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

"Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring,
Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish
Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?)
Of eyes that vainly crave the light, of the objects mean, of the struggle ever renew’d,
Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me,
Of the empty and useless years of the rest, with the rest me intertwined,
The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?
Answer.
That you are here—that life exists and identity,
That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse."

~ O Me! O Life! by Walt Whitman

"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words are meerly the smallest element of language capable of containing meaning and isolation and as such could never directly produce the 4000 Newtons of force per square centimeter required to break bones."

~ Michael Stevens of Vsauce

"Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, 'cause "the West is the best." And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure. The climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual pilgrimage. Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the Great White North. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild."

~ Alexander Supertramp (From Into the Wild)