"One of the reasons why I enjoy college basketball a little more is because of its team orientation as opposed to individual orientation."

“If we value ourselves, we value trees; if we treat our environment right, we treat ourselves right.”

“When you feel perpetually unmotivated, you start questioning your existence in an unhealthy way; everything becomes a pseudo intellectual question you have no interest in responding whatsoever. This whole process becomes your very skin and it does not merely affect you; it actually defines you. So, you see yourself as a shadowy figure unworthy of developing interest, unworthy of wondering about the world - profoundly unworthy in every sense and deeply absent in your very presence.”

“A traumatic event doesn't doom us to suffer indefinitely. Instead, we can use it as a springboard to unleash our best qualities and lead happier lives.”

“Life isn't like coursework, baby. It's one damn essay crisis after another.”

Source : "Exams work because they're scary". Daily Telegraph, May 12, 2005.

“Keep a little space in your heart for the improbable. You won't regret it.”

Source : "Elizabeth Warren’s Commencement Speech: ‘I Know It Is Hard Out There,’ Senator Tells Graduates", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2013.

“Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.”

“If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations.”

“You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.”

Source : Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.107, Penguin