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“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”
― John Green

“Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

“Actually, life is beautiful and I have time.”
― N/A

“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. —JOSEPH CAMPBELL”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.”
― Albert Pine

“At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.”
― Stephen Chobsky

“IN THE END… We only regret the chances we didn’t take, the relationships we were afraid to have,and the decisions we waited too long to make.”
― Lewis Carroll

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“The earth has its music for those who will listen”
― Reginald Vincent Holmes, Fireside Fancies

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
― William Shakespeare

“An oft-told story is like a photograph in a family album; eventually, it replaces the moment it was meant to capture.”
― Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.”
― Raymond Carver

“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Maybe my life hasn't been so chaotic it's just the world that is and the only real trap is getting attached to any of it. Ruin is a gift. Ruin is a road to transformation.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Spend a little more time trying to make something of yourself and a little less time trying to impress people”
― The Breakfast Club

“Maybe we accept the dream has become a nightmare. We tell ourselves that reality is better. We convince ourselves it's better that we never dream at all. But, the strongest of us, the most determined of us, holds on to the dream or we find ourselves faced with a fresh dream we never considered. We wake to find ourselves, against all odds, feeling hopeful. And, if we're lucky, we realize in the face of everything, in the face of life the true dream is being able to dream at all.”
― Grey's Anatomy

“How do we forgive ourselves for all the things we did not become?”
― David "Doc" Luben