Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.

By John Greenleaf Whittier

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

By Rick Riordan

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

By Oscar Wilde

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

By May Sarton

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.

By J.M. Barrie

These woods are lovely, dark and deep,

By Robert Frost

May you live every day of your life.

By Jonathan Swift

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

By Michael Cunningham

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

By Margaret Mead

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

By Gustave Flaubert

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

By Mitch Albom

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

By Jonathan Safran Foer

This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.

By George V. Higgins

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

By Chuck Palahniuk

If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there

By George Harrison