Meredith Grey

"War is a failure of humanity."

"Motivation comes and goes. Show up anyway."

"Inspiration is all around us if we're paying attention."

"Relationships are where we learn who we really are."

"Solitude is sacred. Protect it."

"The best version of ourselves is waiting to be discovered."

"The thing about being a surgeon is that all the things you're afraid of, all the things you want to run away from, eventually show up right there on your table."

"We accept the love we think we deserve."

"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

"It's pretty much how I get through life - by making jokes and taking nothing seriously."

"The pages of our lives are written in the choices we make."

"We don't get to choose our families, but we can choose our friends."

"Dark and twisty, that's me."

"Every moment matters. Every life has value and meaning."

"Love is a drug and I was high on it."

"You can't protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from joy."

"I'm done being scared. I'm done with all of it."

"Sometimes the best and most interesting things happen in the margins."

"We are all responsible for our own happiness."

"A good life is something you change your mind about regularly."

"You're going to mess up. Life is about mess. We all get messy."

"Grief is the price we pay for love."

"It's better to have something and lose it than never to have it at all."

"Knowledge without experience is theory. Experience without knowledge is regret."

"Success is possible for everyone, but you have to want it badly enough."

"I'm nothing more than I was yesterday, and yet everything has changed."

"Truth is like surgery. It hurts, but it heals."

"Being brave doesn't mean you aren't scared. It means you go anyway."

"People don't just leave because times get tough. They leave because they stop trying."

"I'm a good person. But I'm a better surgeon."