Quote to remember ~ Ongoing, possibly updated more and more, as I find them.

"It's not a bad thing, it's a big thing and big things tend to take up a lot of brain space with their bigness." ~Unknown

"Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor." ~ Alexis Carrel

"The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it? It's the next one. Always the next step." ~Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

"Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style." ~ Jim Butcher, Blood Rites

"Nothing can dim the light that shines from within." ~ Maya Angelou

"Stress, anxiety, and depression are caused when we are living to please others." ~Paulo Coelho

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop" ~ Confucius

"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending." ~ C.S. LEWIS

"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me." ~ Carol Burnett

"Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best." ~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“There were times when I was blown away by the virgin beauty of the land. Kind of like that guy who lost his shit on the internet at the full double rainbow across the sky. Remember that guy? He kept asking what it meant, and it is not so difficult a question to answer. It means that we are loved, like all living things that Gaia sustains. There is a poetry in the canapes of forests and in the gentle roll of hills. A song in the wind and a benediction in the kiss of the sun. There are stories in the chuckle of waters in creeks and epics told in the tides of oceans. There are trees, Granuaile, that seem sometimes like they have grown all their lives just to feel the touch of my hand upon their trunks. They are so welcoming to me. You will feel that welcome in your hands some day. You'll feel it in your toes as you walk upon the earth. I cannot wait to see that love bloom in your eyes....' Tears glistened at the edges of her eyes... She knew precisely what I meant. She understood. And she became almost unbearably beautiful to me in that moment.” ~ Kevin Hearne 

“You,” he said, “are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.” ~ Emilie Autumn

“It will,” Wit said, “but then it will get better. Then it will get worse again. Then better. This is life, and I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine. But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say. That is truth. I promise you, Kaladin: You will be warm again.”

― Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War