“When you’re in something you got to give it everything you have or else what are you doing?” – How Do You Know

“We think there is always a tomorrow, so why expose our feelings today? Why risk being vulnerable? Why take the chance? Because today, what we love, what we feel, what is real, is what we have. Tomorrow, it may all change.” – Small Miracles

“You’ve failed many times although you don’t remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim. Don’t worry about failure. Worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.”

“Just find what you love to do and… do it.” – Dawson’s Creek

“Abby: Don’t talk to me about tough calls or names on the door…When Charles fractured three of my ribs and broke my jaw and threw me out into the snow in my nightgown, Olivia Pope took a tire iron and broke his knee cap and got me the best divorce attorney in the state and got me out of that marriage. It’s what Olivia does. It’s who you are. You are the gladiator. I would gladly follow you over a cliff, but you’ve gotta show up. You gotta be a warrior. You don’t get to pick and choose when the real Olivia Pope walks through that door.” – Scandal

“Divorce the past to marry the present and be blessed with a lovely child of future.” –  Anuj Somany

“Who gets to determine when the old ends and the new begins? It’s not on the calendar, it’s not a birthday, it’s not a new year, it’s an event –big or small, something that changes us, ideally it gives us hope, a new way of living and looking at the world, letting go of old habits, old memories. What’s important is that we never stop believing we can have a new beginning, but it’s also important to remember amid all the crap are a few things really worth holding on to.” – Grey’s Anatomy

“You cannot be a beacon of hope when you have darkness in your heart. ” – Smallville

“It’s not the length of life, but the depth of life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Life has no limitations except the ones you make.” – Les Brown

“‘You can’t get stuck on what should have happened. That doesn’t help you.’” – Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

“If you want a different ending, don’t make the same mistakes.”

“But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it’s better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you’re fighting for.” – Paulo Coelho

“You can fill a lifetime with if-onlys.. or you can get on with it.” – Summer Sisters by Judy Blume

“Our best decisions, the ones that we never regret, come from listening to ourselves.” – Felicity

“Take chances, take a lot of them. Because honestly, no matter where you end up and with whom, it always ends up just the way it should be. Your mistakes make you who you are. You learn and grow with each choice you make. Everything is worth it. Say how you feel always. Be you, and be okay with it.”

“You never really know what you are capable of, until you go out and try.” – Sarah Michelle Gellar

“Challenges are what makes us who we are. The people that I’ve lost, the things that I’ve learned. I wouldn’t be the same without them. ” – Smallville

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget.” – Arundhati Roy

“It’s not whether you get knocked down. It’s whether or not you get back up again.”

“Maybe young women don’t wonder whether they can have it all any longer, but in case any of you are wondering, of course you can have it all. What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications. It will not be anything like what you think it will be like, but surprises are good for you. And don’t be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I’ve had four careers and three husbands.” – Nora Ephron

“‘You don’t have to know the right way, the perfect way to do something.  You just try it with your heart.  And it works.’” – <em>Pink</em> by Marilyn Griffith

“Forget about the reasons why you can’t in life and start to try.” –  Hilary Duff, “fly”

“If you want to change this party, lead it. If you want to change the country, lead it.” – The Iron Lady

“It used to be about trying to do something. Now it’s about trying to be someone.” – The Iron Lady

“You know, sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it.” – We Bought a Zoo

“Watch your thoughts for they become words. Watch your words for they become actions. Watch your actions for they become… habits. Watch your habits, for they become your character. And watch your character, for it becomes your destiny!” – The Iron Lady

“You can’t change your situation. The only thing that you can change is how you choose to deal with it.” – 50/50

“Every man at some point in his life is going to lose a battle. He is going to fight and he is going to lose…but what makes him a man is that he does not lose himself in the midst of that battle.” - Friday Night Lights

“When you finally get absorbed in what you are doing you frequently surprise yourself with flashes of talent and brilliance you didn’t know you had in you. You can find a source of genius that lies dormant until called upon for great effort.…All of us can find resources within ourselves we would not normally suspect exist. We can find them only when we attempt something difficult or great.” - Earle Nightingale