“These worst mornings with cold floors and hot windows and merciless light – the soul’s certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed, vertically, and then that going to sleep again at the end of it will be like falling, again, off something tall and sheer.” – A quote by whom?

  • David Foster Wallace
“I’ve had the sort of day that would make St. Francis of Assisi kick babies.” – A quote by whom?
  • Douglas Adams

“Maybe it’s not about having a beautiful day, but about finding beautiful moments. Maybe a whole day is just too much to ask. I could choose to believe that in every day, in all things, no matter how dark and ugly, there are shards of beauty if I look for them.” – A quote by whom?

  • Anna White
“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.” – A quote by whom?
  • Oscar Wilde

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” – A quote by whom?

  • Maya Angelou
“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.” -A quote by whom?
  • Ray Bradbury
“But I am very poorly today & very stupid & I hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.” – A quote by whom?
  • Charles Darwin

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.” – A quote by whom?

  • J.K. Rowling
“I haven’t had a very good day. I think I might still be hungover and everyone’s dead and my root beer’s gone.” – A quote by whom?
  • Holly Black

“Outside the windows the day was bright: golden sunshine, blue sky, pleasant wind… I wanted to punch the happy day in the face, grab it by the hair, and beat it until it told me what the hell it was so happy about.” – A quote by whom?

  • Ilona Andrews
“Even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.” – A quote by whom?
  • Stephen Chbosky
“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don’t help.” – A quote by whom?
  • Bill Watterson

“Why didn’t you tell me there was danger? Why didn’t you warn me? Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance of discovering in that way; and you did not help me!” – A quote by whom?

  • Thomas Hardy

“Anyone can become angry – that’s easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not easy.” – A quote by whom?

  • Aristotle