1. "You may be poor, but the one thing nobody can take away from you is the freedom to fuck up your life whatever way you want to." ~ Jonathan Franzen

2. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do." ~ Mark Twain

3. "When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn't a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of self." ~ Brad Pitt

4. "I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay." ~ Madonna

5. "Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living." ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

6. "A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it." ~ Charles Dickens

7. "It does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that." ~ J.K. Rowling

8. "Far from a Harvard student, just had the balls to do it." ~ Jay-Z

9. "My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me." ~ Steve Maraboli

10. "Someone once told me not to bite off more than I could chew. I told them I'd rather choke on greatness than nibble on mediocrity." ~ Anonymous

11. "Well behaved women rarely make history." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

12. "Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence." ~ Abigail Adams

13. "Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively." ~ Dalai Lama XIV

14. "The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care." ~ Hugh Macleod

15. "Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn't value or understand the beauty in being different at that time in my life." ~ Marisol Nichols

16. "People may hate you for being different and not living by society's standards, but deep down, they wish they had the courage to do the same." ~ Unknown