“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” ― Oscar Wilde

“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without the work.” ― Emile Zola

“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.” ― Antonio Porchia

“Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits.” ― Anonymous

“Life moves fast. Run faster.” ― Frank Iero

“When people say ‘There are other fish in the sea,’ I say ‘She was my sea.’” [ed] ― J. Faulkner

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” ― J.K. Rowling

“Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs painting.” ― William ‘Billy’ Rose

“The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.” – Stephen McCranie

“Years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute.” – Edgar Allan Poe

“Never derive your self worth on other people’s inability to love you. That is their flaw, not yours.” – Unknown

“You can pay for school, but you can’t buy class.” – Jay-Z

“Storms make trees take deeper roots.” — Dolly Parton

“If one sticks too rigidly to one’s principles, one would hardly see anybody.” — Agatha Christie

“Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.” — The Imitation Game

“You can only feel good about what you’re not doing when you know what you are not doing.” — David Allen

Bonus quote: “Sweater, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.” — Ambrose Bierce

“What you don’t understand you can make mean anything.” ― Chuck Palahniuk

“The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too” ― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

“There is no safety. Only varying degrees of risk.” – Lois McMaster Bujold

“If you want loyalty get a dog. If you want loyalty and attention get a smart dog.” ― Grand Fairley

“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.” – Winnie the Pooh

“We must always talk in the market place of what happens to us in the forest.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

“No matter how love sick you are, don’t take the first pill that comes along.[ed]” – Dr. Joyce Brothers

“For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.” – Lily Tomlin

“Bloom Where You’re Planted.” ― Mary Engelbreit

“There are all types of love in the world, but never the same love twice.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.” ― James M. Barrie

“True love is when you discover your name is their password.” ― Unknown

“The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers But above all the world needs dreamers who do.” — Sarah Breathnach

“What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.” — Albert Pike

“The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.” ― Salvador Dali

“If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.” ― James Goldsmith