Motivation Quote by Sherwood Smith

“A great many people, he had noticed, spent large parts of their time worrying about things they were powerless to alter. Had they concentrated…

— Setterfield Diane

“They chose to be different. And in doing so, they proved that through struggle, sacrifice and service, staggering personal transformation is possible.”

— Adam Braun

“People grew. They changed, and he suddenly realized that they could change together or grow apart and it was all their decision.”

— Sophie Oak

“This was how they wished they had been: each was creating an ideal into which he was now fitting his past life.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“The ones that change...it’s not that going actually changed them its that they didn’t have something better waiting for them when they got back.…

— Hope Alcocer

“Why had their lives turned out this way, and not another way?”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“I mean, it was hard on them. They were turning their backs on everything they’d ever known, because they’d decided there was something that…

— Seanan McGuire

“But that is what Catalysts did. They made the difficult choices, the ones no one else had the courage, or insight, to make. They…

— J.K. Swift

“His baseline attitude toward other humans was that they could all just go fuck themselves and that he was not going to expend any…

— Neal Stephenson

“But the stories had made him different, too. They had shaped his appetite, his moral prejudices, who he was.”

— Nancy Horan

“While he slept the world spun on, changed, situations altered and grew more complex, left him more inadequate to deal with them.”

— William Gay

“They seemed, like himself, to be living in a world which did not want them.”

— Thomas Hardy