Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
(George Bernard Shaw)

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
(Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854))

Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
(Alvin Toffler)

Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
(Leon Trotsky, Diary In Exile, Entry for April 3, 1935)

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
(Karl Wallenda)

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
(Oscar Wilde)

"... take any form, drive me mad only do not leave me in this abyss where I cannot find you."
(Emily Brontë)

"A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention."
(Aldous Huxley)

"A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step."
(Mao Tse-tung (Zedong), 1893-1976)

"Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life in the full sense of the word."
(Michel Houellebecq, 'Extension du domaine de la lutte')