1. “One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” – Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

2. “Hold fast to dreams / For if dreams die / Life is a broken-winged bird / That cannot fly.” – Langston Hughes, Dreams

3. “Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences.” – Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath

4. “Let no changes change you.” – Jill Lepore, Book of Ages

5. “I write as much to understand as to be understood.” – Elie Wiesel

6. “It always makes me proud to love the world somehow; hate’s so easy compared.” – Jack Kerouac, Big Sur

7. “Lift your eyes upon / This day breaking for you. / Give birth again / To the dream.” – Maya Angelou, On The Pulse of the Morning

8. “It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and the Damned

9. “’Dear God,’ she prayed, ‘Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.’” – Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

10. “You shall love your crooked neighbor / With your crooked heart.” – W.H. Auden, As I Walked Out One Evening

11. “I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.” – Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

12. “Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn’t make a difference, you will make it make a difference.” – Chaim Potok, My Name Is Asher Lev

13. “There shall be an eternal summer in the grateful heart.” – Celia Thaxter

14. “It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.” – Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

15. “the tired sunsets

and tired people –

it takes a lifetime to die

and no time

at all.” – Charles Bukowski

16. “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” – Antoine de Saint Exupery, The Little Prince

17. “It seemed funny to me that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.” – S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

18. “And now it is time for a final act of courage. I urge you: March proudly into your own dream.” – Tim O’Brien, Going After Cacciato

19. “Art is the triumph over chaos.” – John Cheever

20. “Do I contradict myself?

Very well then I contradict myself,

(I am large, I contain multitudes.)” – Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

21. “Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” – Mark Twain

22. “Who, being loved, is poor?” – Oscar Wilde

23. “(i do not know what it is about you that closes

and opens;only something in me understands

the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)

nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands.” – e.e. cummings, somewhere I have never travelled,gladly beyond

24. "Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why." - Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five

25. “Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.” – Allen Ginsberg