This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Rice chapter and does not reflect the views of Her Campus.
Sob/smile through these bittersweet quotes about change, fear, and the unknown.
- “Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.”—Carrie Fisher
- “Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet.”—L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
- “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”—Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
- “The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive.”—J.K. Rowling
- “Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.”—Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
- “I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape.”—Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
- “Hope is not an illusion.”—Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess
- “So it goes.”—Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
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