“Assume that every problem in your life is a lesson to make you stronger. Then you never feel like a victim.”
—Andrew Matthews, Happiness Now!
September 2011
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“How mysterious it is, to be in love. For you can be in love with one who knows nothing of you. Perhaps our greatest happinesses spring from such longings—being in love with one who is oblivious of you.”
—Joyce Carol Oates, Little Bird of Heaven
“She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.”
—Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One
“Many times in life I’ve regretted the things I’ve said without thinking. But I’ve never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken.”
—Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy
“Have you ever been to a place you’re supposed to love, but all you can think about is home?”
—Cynthia Hand, Unearthly
“Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength, and the honesty, to break them down.”
—Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts
“There’s something ugly about a pretty boy who knows he’s pretty and assumes everyone else knows it too.”
—Nova Ren Suma, Imaginary Girls
“It was a huge comfort to have a person who’d keep you honest with yourself and who also gave you safe harbour.”
—Lauren Dane, Taking Care of Business
“Don’t you long for something different to happen, something so exciting and new it carries you along with it like a great tide, something that lets your life blaze and burn so the whole world can see it?”
—Juliet Marillier, Son of the Shadows
“The worst thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task of starting over.”
—Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith
“Revenge is not worthy of you. If you concentrate on revenge, you will keep those wounds fresh that would otherwise have healed.”
—Adeline Yen Mah
“Love who you love while you have them. That’s all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you’ll never run out.”
—Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory
“I’m not sorry to be the person I am today, and to have the life I have now. Even though it’s not what I thought I wanted for my future a year ago, it is what I want now.”
—Nancy Werlin, Impossible
“The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you’ve already stopped loving that person.”
—Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
“It’s like you’re born with all these blessings, only you don’t realize they’re blessings until you lose them. And if you’re thick-headed enough, like me, you don’t even realize you’ve lost them, not until they come back to you.”
—Kevin Brockmeier, The Brief History of the Dead
“Why do people think being with someone is the answer to everything?”
—Elizabeth Scott, Love You Hate You Miss You
“It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll.”
—Donald Miller
“I can’t trust the people I care about not to hurt me. And I’m not sure I can trust myself not to hurt them, either.”
—Holly Black, White Cat
“The problem with being happy in the moment is, moments never last. Things change whether you want them to or not, which makes it only smart to keep looking ahead.”
—Laura Peyton Roberts, Queen B
“When people say they love you, you just have to decide to believe them, because you’ll never know for sure.”
—Ellen Wittlinger, Zigzag
