"Life's like a movie, write your own ending."

- Jim Henson

"It's easy to embrace hopelessness when things seem insurmountable and yet...It's not that difficult to overcome these seemingly ghastly problems. What's hard is to decide. Most difficult situations will resolve themselves if you are persistent and if you don't give up entirely."

- Robert Downey, Jr.

“Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.”

- Channing Pollock

“Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.”

- Harold Rowe "Hal" Holbrook as Lou Mannheim in Wallstreet (1987)

“Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect."

- Margaret Mitchell as Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind (1936)

“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”

- Stephen King

"In every moment there's the possibility of a better future..."

- Governor David Nix of Tomorrowland

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”

- J. K. Rowling as Albus Dumbledore

“Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.”

-  Annette Funicello

“In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.”

- Sid Caesar

“Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”

- William Saroyan

“For me, the safest place is out on a limb.”

- Shirley MacLaine

"A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory."

- Leonard Nimoy

"You don't want the bumpers. Life doesn't give you bumpers."

- Richard Linklater, through "Dad" in Boyhood

“If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise."

- Robert Fritz

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

- J.R.R Tolkien as Gandalf

The Fellowship of the Ring

“Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.”

- Jodie Foster

“Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.”

- Will Rogers

“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”

- Christopher Reeve

“There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man.”

- Sean Connery