Sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand, and what you've been up there searching for forever, is in your hands. When you figure out love is all that matters after all it sure makes everything else seem so small. - Carrie Underwood

It’s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes.The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature,” he said. “You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up. - Mitch Albom, For One More Day

Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind. - Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps. - John Green

One must work and dare if one really wants to live. - Vincent van Gogh

I am as wrapped up in her as a vine that clings to a tree seeking for sustenance. She’s tied me to her for eternity. She’s my home. She’s my reason for being. To win and hold her heart is my only purpose. - Colleen Houck

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. - Haniel Long

Now what state do you live in?''Denial. - Bill Watterson, The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'. - Muhammad Ali

To love is to recognize yourself in another. - Eckhart Tolle

I've had it with being nice, understanding, fair and hopeful. I feel like being negative all day. The chip on my shoulder could sink the QE2. I've got an attitude problem and nobody better get in my way...I'm in a bad mood and the whole stupid little world is gonna pay! - John Waters, Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters

We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences - Nikola Tesla, My Inventions

God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest. - Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic. - Terry Pratchett

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. - Emily Dickinson

Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence. - Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows

Things don't always work out the way we hope. You just have to pick yourself up and find a new direction to go in. - Joelle Charbonneau, The Testing

We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything. - Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

She had been proud of his decision to serve his country, her heart bursting with love and admiration the first time she saw him outfitted in his dress blues. - Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One

you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry - Taylor Swift