“If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?”

“Give your best. Settle for nothing less than doing your best for yourself and for others.”

Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon

“I'm tired of being your best friend. I'm tired of being second best. I won't settle for that anymore. It's all or nothing, Schuyler. You have to decide. Him or me.

- Oliver Hazzard-Perry”

Melissa de la Cruz book Revelations

“It may be that you are settled in another place it may be that you are happy but the one who took your heart wields final power.”

Jeanette Winterson book The Passion

“Happiness is the best revenge, you know? Just be happy. It's a choice.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

“Happiness comes in moments, & then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it.”

Dennis Lehane book Mystic River

“"I think we shall have to give the region a name. What do you propose?"
"The Porter settled that some time ago," said the Second Voice. "Train for Niggle's Parish in the bay."”

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien book Leaf by Niggle

“Clarissa," he said, "here with the vampire, I see. When things have settled a bit, we really must discuss you choice in pets..”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

“I think… the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes… Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for whatmake you happy.”

Wally Lamb book She's Come Undone

“Accounts are not quite settled between us," said she, with a passion that equaled my own. "I can love, and I can hate. You had your choice. You chose to spurn the first; now you must test the other.”

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author