I may not be there yet, but i'm closer than I was yesterday.

A friend of mine said to me: "You have to believe that life is more than the sum of its parts, kiddo." I remember it right down to the "kiddo" part. But when I think about what she said, the same thing always comes into my head: "What if you can't put the pieces together in the first place?" -United States of Leland

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts - it's what you do with what you have left. ~ Hubert Humphrey

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. ~Mignon McLaughlin

Just because today is a terrible day doesn't mean tomorrow might not be the best day of your entire life. You just have to wake up and get there. -Pete Wentz

These things happen. What other people say doesn't change the way you are. Remember what we always say? It's just part of the journey. Life isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you handle what happens

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory. -Susan B. Anthony

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. -Dr. Seuss

She was both wise and stupid in the way that when life got hard she didn't work through her problems; she just danced in her underwear alone in her room until they went away.

War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead -Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out. ~Lou Reed

"It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily. "So it is." "And freezing." "Is it?" "Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately." ~A.A. Milne

Well, most learn to walk life's road by themselves. But a sad few of us simply stop trying. --Desperate Housewives

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another. ~ Katherine Paterson

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves. -Albert Guinon

Think of a car driving through the night. The headlights only go a hundred or two hundred feet forward, and you can make it all the way from California to New York driving through the dark, because all you have to see is the next two hundred feet. And that's how life tends to unfold before us. If we just trust that the next two hundred feet will unfold after that, and the next two hundred feet will unfold after that, your life will keep unfolding. And it will eventually get you to the destination of whatever it is you truly want, because you want it. - The Secret

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. -The Dark Knight