It’s that time in the semester where classes are starting to really pick up. Life is now filled with tests, quizzes, papers, and homework assignments, and syllabus week feels like a dream. The stress of college can be overwhelming, but these lines of literature remind us that life is ever changing, the world is big, and we are going to be okay:
1. “All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.” --Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
2. "And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good." --John Steinbeck, East of Eden
3. “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” --Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
4. “I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into it's expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst it's perils.” --Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
5. “And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.” --Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
6. “Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.” --Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
7. “And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to an end; but that was not to be.” --C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
8. “I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.” --Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
9. "'Well,' replied Charlotte, “you must try to build yourself up. I want you to get plenty of sleep, and stop worrying. Never hurry and never worry!'" --E.B. White, Charlotte's Web
10. "It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." --J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
11. “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
