It looks like Kylie Jenner was right after all, 2016 was really the year of "realizing stuff." The truths of our current state of humanity, our state as a society, and as a nation have come to surface. As we close off a chapter in world history and enter a new year, we take the time to reflect on what has been and what's to come. Here's 50 quotes to consider what changes you will choose to make (or not to make) in 2017.

1. “It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything. I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
-Anne Frank

2. “Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.” -Oprah Winfrey

3. “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” -Mother Teresa

4. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

5. “We need never be ashamed of our tears.” - Charles Dickens

6. “Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.” - Charles Dickens

7. “Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.” - Michael Jackson

8. “Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.” - Steve Jobs

9. “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” - Virginia Woolf

10. “Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.” - Virginia Woolf

11. “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” - Shakespeare

12. “The passage is through, not over, not by, not around, but through.” - Cherrie Moraga

13. “Our strategy is how we cope, on an everyday basis, how we measure and weigh what is to be said and when, what is to be done and how, and to whom… daily deciding/risking who it is we can call an ally, call a friend, whatever that person’s skin, sex, or sexuality.” - Cherrie Moraga

14. “We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.” - Cesar Chavez

15. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” - Maya Angelou

16. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” - Maya Angelou

17. “Though we tremble before uncertain futures may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength

may we dance in the face of our fears.” - Gloria E. Anzaldua

18. “If one man can destroy everything, why can’t one girl change it?” - Malala Yousafzai

19. “Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.” - Malala Yousafzai

20. “Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.” - Margaret Cho

21. “Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn’t mean it does not exist.” - Margaret Cho

22. “You are perfectly cast in your life. I can’t imagine anyone but you in the role. Go play.” - Lin-Manuel Miranda

23. “Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love, cannot be killed or swept aside.” - Lin-Manuel Miranda

24. “I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.” - Ice Cube

25. “We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.” - Matthew McConaughey

26. “We as people have a purpose here to contribute to the Earth, to contribute to people’s goodness and good life.” - Common

27. “If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.” - John Lennon

28. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

29. “At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.” - Frida Kahlo

30. “We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.” - J.K. Rowling

31. “If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” - J.K. Rowling

32. “You demand respect and you’ll get it. First of all, you give respect.” - Mary J. Blige

33. “I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.” - Jackie Robinson

34. “An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” - Mahatma Gandhi

35. “You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” - Mahatma Gandhi

36. “It’s a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.” -Pete Seeger

37. “You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.” - Malcolm X

38. “I believe that the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are, truly being who you are. And I’ve spent far too long apologizing for that.” - Viola Davis

39. “They say to serve is to love. I think to serve is to heal, too.” - Viola Davis

40. “If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.” - Michael Harrington

41. “Hope will never be silent.” - Harvey Milk

42. “There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.” - Michelle Obama

43. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” - Barack Obama

44. “Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” - Gloria Steinem

45. “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” -Muhammad Ali

46. “I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.” - Muhammad Ali

47. “You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you’re compelled to say something to speak out against it.” - Macklemore

48. “Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable.” - Janelle Monae

49. “I’ve put up with too much, too long, and now I’m just too intelligent, too powerful, too beautiful, too sure of who I am finally to deserve anything less.” - Sandra Cisneros

50. “You can’t erase what you know. You can’t forget who you are.” - Sandra Cisneros