- "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." - Dr.Seuss
- "I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right. You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself. And sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together." - Marilyn Monroe
- "I want to see the world. I want the world to see me." - Nohely Koeyers
- "None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are." - Anne Rice
- "The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen." — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." - Oscar Wilde
- "To love Is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing." - Unknown
- “There was no way we as humans would ever have a sustainable future without social justice” – Jeanette Fitzsimons
- “We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give” – Winston Churchill
- A chief doesn’t just tell his tribe how much he likes them. He also leads them by example. Hoe dos things and achieves things.
- ARISTOTLE - we are what we repeatedly do
- as with most things in life, if you're determined to make something work, you find the solution
- Dad, my costume is the business... - Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging
- if somebody else can do it, i can do it. All i'm missing is the knowledge - Greg Hatton, self taught furniture designer and maker
- It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious - Oscar Wilde
- It works to protect (public health) and (safety) by providing information to enhance (health decisions) and it promotes (health) through partnerships with (state health) departments and other organisations.
- on bell hooks - she is fiery and unabashed about her beliefs as every intelligent women should be
- One of the characteristics of winners is that they lead vey balanced lives.
- Only dead fish swim with the stream
- The great home of the soul is the open road - DH Lawrence
- The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about - Oscar Wlde
- There is comfort in knowing that some thing in life are perfect
- your goals should scare you a little and excite you a lot
- excellence then, is not an act but a habit
- “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not seek the answers, which cannot be given to you because you will not be able to live them. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer”.
- “For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars make me dream” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “If we wait till we are ready we will be waiting for the rest of our lives” – C. Snicket
- “That girl you just called fat – she’s overdosing on diet pills. That girl you just called ugly – she spends hours putting make-up on, hoping people will like her. The boy you just tripped – he’s abused enough at home. See the man with the ugly scars – he fought for your country. They guy you just made fun of for crying – his mother is dying”
- Awaken the restlessness of reason and see where it might lead.
- Charles Bukowski – “We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities; we are eaten up by nothing”.
- I don’t need to dress up in cheesy lingerie and put on a strip show in order to prove how empowered I am, because, I don’t actually need to prove anything to anyone.
- I mean, if you feel guilty about just eating a brownie that you want, what else in your life do you want, what else in your life do you want that you’re not expressing?
- ...against bullying. You never know what it’s like until you walk a mile in their shoes.
- “All the good things in the world you can put inside a thimble” – Tom Waits
- “By smells and tastes and touch, we were finding out about each other. Saying what we couldn’t with words” – Chock Palahniuk.
- “Dismiss whatever insults your own soul” – Walt Whitman
- “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments” – Confucius
- “Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome” – Randy Pausch
- “If you reflect within yourself and find nothing to be ashamed of, how could you have anxiety or fear?” – Confucius
- “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do” – Rumi
- “People are just as happy as they make their minds to be” – Abraham Lincoln
- “The brick walls are there for a reason; to give us a chance to show how badly we want something” – Randy Pausch
- “The mind can make a heaven out of hell, or a hell out of heaven” – John Milton
- “To be in the moment is the best thing you could possibly do” – Daphne Guiness
- “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “To live fully, one must give up security. To give up security is to risk death. Therefore, to live one must prepare to die” – Tom Robbins.
- “Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy conscience through a slow vibration, we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, life is only a dream and we are the imaginations of our selves. Here’s Tom with the weather” – Bill Hicks
- “Try not to become a (person) of success, but a (person) of value” – Albert Einstein
- “You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before and she may love again, But if she loves you now, what else matters? She’s not perfect – you aren’t either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break – her heart. So don’t hurt her, don’t change her, don’t analyze and don’t expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know (nicely) when she makes you mad, and miss her when she’s not there” – Bob Marley.
- “You must be the change you wish to see in the world” – Gandhi
- And your very flesh shall be a great poem – Walt Witman
- Because gender is a process, there is room not only for modification and variation by individuals and small group, but also for institutionalized change.
- Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do it. Be focused and don’t be afraid to dream big.
- Gift of seeing beauty in everything
- Go out and do for others what somebody did for you.
- I was waiting for the longest time and then you were standing in front of me.
- Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
- Never let the hand you hold, hold you down.
- Only a large-scale popular movement toward decentralization and self-help can arrest the present tendency toward statism – Foreword to Brave New World
- Our bodies mirror our inner beliefs, so we should ensure these beliefs are radiant and healthy.
- Precious gifts come in very small parcels
- Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
- We create paths in our brain when we think...when we think, thoughts get fired off and travel down the same ingrained path, over and over. When I first took art classes, they used to make me draw with my left hand, eyes closed, or with the picture upside down. They did this because they wanted to open up long closed off brain cells and create new ways of thinking and expression. We only use 10% of our brain because we continually follow the same paths and don’t force ourselves to develop new ones.
- We need to think of illness as our body’s way of communicating to us that readjustment (thoughts) may be necessary.
- When we develop determination and will, we feel good about ourselves and develop the strength to overcome our personal obstacles. This is known as our personal fire. This fire is very powerful and provides us with the drive to accomplish self-expression.
- When we dream we enter a world that is entirely our own
- You change the world around you by changing yourself.
- You don’t have to lose the girl to become the woman.
- TedxTeen, Jacob Barnett: Forget what you know - “The field you are passionate about, stop learning about it. Start thinking about it. Stop being a student of that field and become that field. Who knows, you might create something”
- BE GRATEFUL FOR WHAT YOU HAVE AS THEY WERE ONCE THE THINGS YOU WANTED.
- Seneca, the Roman court-philosopher: "It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, who is poor."
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