You would not want to be responsible for someone else’s happiness, so please do not hold someone else responsible for yours!

— Jennifer O'Neill

You yearn to stay in this in-between place, where the beauty of the times you have freshly bid farewell to is still alive and vivid in your mind – almost real – and the reality of your new circumstances has yet to fully sink in. You listen to the familiar melodies that had accompanied you on your journey, and allow the music to evoke landscapes and scenes in your mind. The songs caress your sub-consciousness and fill your being with an airy joy. You are both here and elsewhere. Or perhaps you are everywhere and nowhere.

— Agnes Chew

You, your thoughts, and your imagination control the doorway to happiness. Service to the humanity is key to that doorway.

— Debasish Mridha

Yup! I'll live stupid! Because I know what I do, and what we as a species do will one day come together and make a difference. We matter!

— Charles Lee

Zach found himself remembering something he'd heard Soledad and Leo saying the previous night, about healing. That it was mysterious. That it took time. And that Lucy was just at the beginning. That a terrible thing had happened - two terrible things, really - but they were now over. And that Lucy would be okay, in the end.

— Nancy Werlin

Zero Expectations? What's that? I believe in Smart Expectations.

— Ashlecka Aumrivani

Z is for Villa who drank too much gin.

— Edward Gorey

Zoe—" I said." Stars," she whispered. "I can see the stars again, my lady." A tear trickled down Artemis's cheek. "Yes, my brave one. They are beautiful tonight."" Stars," Zoe repeated. Her eyes fixed on the night sky. And she did not move again. Thalia lowered her head. Annabeth gulped down a sob, and her father put his hands on her shoulders. I watched as Artemis cupped her hand above Zoe's mouth and spoke a few words in Ancient Greek. A silvery wisp of smoke exhaled from Zoe's lips and was caught in the hand of the goddess. Zoe's body shimmered and disappeared. Artemis stood, said a kind of blessing, breathed into her cupped hand and released the silver dust to the sky. It flew up, sparkling, and vanished. For a moment I didn't see anything different. Then Annabeth gasped. Looking up in the sky, I saw that the stars were brighter now. They made a pattern I had never noticed before—a gleaming constellation that looked a lot like a girl's figure—a girl with a bow, running across the sky." Let the world honor you, my Huntress," Artemis said. "Live forever in the stars.

— Rick Riordan

Понякога трябва да се предадеш, за да победиш.

— Gregory David Roberts

أَعيشُ عَلى فُتاتِ أَحْلامٍI live on remnants of dreams

— Khaled Ibrahim