This page has an easy explanation, just look at the title. These quotes will mostly be from books, although a few will be from movies or television. Some will be thought provoking and some will be amusing. I may even have a couple that will be downright funny. They are in no particular order. Enjoy!
"All of life is in our minds. Where else does it take place, where else do we add up what it means to us and subtract what we have lost? An event is just an event until some person attaches meaning to it." ~Robin Hobb, Fool's Fate
"Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. An accumulation of small acts can change the world. The fate of the world can pivot on one man's death. Or turn a different way because of his survival." ~Robin Hobb, Fool's Fate
"We are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us." ~Robin Hobb, Fool's Fate
"...when you let go and follow your fate instead of trying to twist your life around and master it, a man finds that happiness follows him." ~Robin Hobb, Fool's Fate
"She speaks as though she has a lemon up her posterior." ~Mary Blackchurch, "The Governess" (1998)
"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal." ~Albert Pine, heard on "Criminal Minds", Riding the Lightening
Now to find the rest of them...grr.