Everything may be labelled—but everybody is not.
 ~ 
The Age of Innocence
 by 
Edith Wharton
"What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer—the Future so much brighter?"
 ~ 
Jane Eyre
 by 
Charlotte Bronte
"It makes a difference doesn't it, whether we fully fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?"
 ~ 
A Room With A View
 by 
E. M. Forster
"Everything that's worth having is some trouble."
 ~ 
Anne Of Avonlea
 by 
Lucy Maud Montgomery
If you need something to worship, then worship life  all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!
 ~ 
Dune Messiah
 by 
Frank Herbert
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit From pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
 ~ 
Invictus
 by 
William Ernest Henley
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
 ~ 
Invictus
 by 
William Ernest Henley
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
 ~ 
Lady Windermere's Fan
 by 
Oscar Wilde
"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship."
 ~ 
Little Women
 by 
Louisa May Alcott
In the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven.
 ~ 
The Old Curiosity Shop
 by 
Charles Dickens