• The secret to getting ahead is getting started.
• Your individuality is the only thing that works. embrace it, and have fun with it.
• “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” - Nelson Mandela
• "Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it." Jonathan Haidt
• I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me. ~David Bowie
• Good things come to those who work hard, while others are whining.
• Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow. ~Carrie Fisher on pursuing dreams despite mental illness
• My point is this- the more you have to lose, the braver you are for standing up.
• Take the first step. it’s always about the first step.
• The revolution that takes place in your head, nobody will ever see that. ~Gil Scott Heron
• For the first time, I will smile without feeling guilty, because joy is not a sin.
• Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both. ~Deepak Chopra
• 'And you, you scare people because you are whole all by yourself." ~Lauren Alex Hooper
• The Way is not in the sky; the Way is in the heart. ~Gautama Buddha
• Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.

Just keep going. No feeling is final. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Hours

• “it’s the first day of the rest of your life.”
• do not waste your time on the might have beens. today is your beginning ~bev james
• Confusion is a gift from God. Those times when you feel most desperate for a solution, sit. Wait. The information will become clear. The confusion is there to guide you. Seek detachment and become the product of your life. ~The RZA
• “If people aren’t laughing at your dreams…then they aren’t big enough!” ~Grayson Marshall
• I appreciate myself. That is how I heal. ~Alison Malee
• In one freeing move, she pulled back her arm and sent the last of her doubts sailing into the sea. ~Lynne Gentry, from Valley of Decision
• I don’t think existence wants you to be serious. I have not seen a serious tree. I have not seen a serious bird. I have not seen a serious sunrise. I have not seen a serious starry night. It seems they are all laughing in their own ways, dancing in their own ways. We may not understand it, but there is a subtle feeling that the whole existence is a celebration. ~Osho
• “Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.” ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• The secret is to throw yourself into the water of life again and again, not to hang back, no reservations, risk everything, but above all strike out boldly with all you have. ~Arshile Gorky
• Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about. ~Winston Churchill
• I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is…unapologetically who they are. ~Don Cheadle
• The cost of not following your heart is spending the rest of your life wishing you had.
• When I discover who I am, I’ll be free. ~Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
• To hell with being ashamed of what you liked. ~Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
• The world is full of people who would punish you for taking the path they dared not take. Pay them no mind. ~Michael Boiano
• "For a star to be born, there is one thing that must happen: a gaseous nebula must collapse. So collapse. Crumble. This is not your destruction. This is your birth."~ n.t.
• No matter how cruel the world becomes You must never let go of your kindness.
• No matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself ~Audrey Hepburn
• There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen. ~Rumi
• Do not find peace. Find passion. ~Michelle Hodkin, The Retribution of Mara Dyer
• "But it didn’t break me. Nothing can break me unless I let it." ~Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
• Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free. ~Eckhart Tolle
• For everything I’m not, there’s something that I am. ― William Chapman
• You can have it all. Just not all at once. ~Oprah Winfrey
• the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them. ~Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness
• The things you used to own, now they own you. ~Chuck Palahniuk
• Remember everything is right until it’s wrong. You’ll know when it’s wrong. ~Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
• May you never be tired, discouraged or scared to try once more.
• In the end I succeeded. But, the struggle is not yet over. ~Sigmund Freud
• But it didn’t break me. Nothing can break me unless I let it. ~Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
• The trouble is, you think you have time. ~Buddha
• They were different people together in daylight than they were alone in the dark. ~Joseph Heller, Catch-22
• It’s okay that you’re not who you thought you would be
• Do not resist. Take it. Be overwhelmed. Accept it fully. Make it part of life. Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. This is the mystery. This is what I must do. ~Katherine Mansfield, from a diary entry written c. March 1920
• If you have been brutally broken, but still have the courage to be gentle to others then you deserve a love deeper than the ocean itself. ~Nikita Gill
• There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
• Everything is strange. Things are huge and very small. ~Virginia Woolf, The Waves
• Forgive yourself for what happened then, focus on what you’re doing now.
• This is why I sometimes ask people, “Are you ready to lose your world?” Because true awakening will not fit into the world as you imagine it or the self you imagine yourself to be. Reality is not something that you integrate into your personal view of things. Reality is life without your distorting stories, ideas, and beliefs. It is perfect unity free of all reference points, with nowhere to stand and nothing to grab hold of. It has never been spoken, never been written, never been imagined. It is not hidden, but in plain view. Cease to cherish opinions and it stands before your very eyes. ~Adyashanti
• We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye. ~Carlos Castaneda
• To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
• It is time for a new direction… ~Andrei Tarkovsky, last words, as reported by his wife.
• I am alive. I am here. I am trying. That is enough. ~Dele Olanubi
• I now release old ways of thinking and feeling that are no longer serving my souls highest good. I choose to align with unconditional love and unity consciousness
• There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind on snow, rain on trees, wave on stone. It is the language of dream, gesture, symbol, memory. We have forgotten this language. We do not even remember that it exists. ~Derrick Jensen, from A Language Older Than Words
• What is yours will find you.
• In this life there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants. The other is getting it. ~Wilde (1997), Dir. Brian Gilbert
• Listen a hundred times; ponder a thousand times; speak once. ~Turkish Proverb
• Never ignore your first instinct just because it isn’t what you want to believe. ~William Chapman
• One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life. ~Nathan Scott
• "and with practice, all will come”
• I believe that words uttered in passion contain a greater living truth than do those words which express thoughts rationally conceived. It is blood that moves the body. Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things. ~Sōseki Natsume, Kokoro
• What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. ~Helen Keller
• If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. ~Siddhartha Gautama
• You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can’t run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are. ~Dale Archer
• Stop thinking that other people are going to come and save you. You gotta save yourself. ~Rae Earl
• But it didn’t break me. Nothing can break me unless I let it. ~Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
• A person is a fluid process, not a fixed and static entity; a flowing river of change, not a block of solid material; a continually changing constellation of potentialities, not a fixed quantity of traits. ~Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person
• I can be someone’s and still be my own. ~Shel Silverstein
• There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. ~Nelson Mandela
• Oh! That gentleness! How far more potent is it than force! ~Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre.
• My only advice to you is to love, love, and love. Love like there will be no more sunrises or sunsets or no more tomorrows. And if by some chance the sun rises again and tomorrow arrives, love some more, love again. ~Nicole Moon
• One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. ~Jack Kerouac
• Tomorrow is another day, a fresh start. You don’t have to feel this way anymore. ~N.M.Sanchez
• i can wear the mask but i can’t get into character today.
• Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself. ~Sylvia Plath
• Millions of people can believe in you, and yet none of it matters if you don’t believe in yourself. ~Bernajoy Vaal
• There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship. ~Franz Kafka, Letters To Felice
• Surround yourself with people who make you hungry for life, touch your heart, and nourish your soul.
• A healthy relationship keeps the doors and windows open. Plenty of air is circulating and no one feels trapped. Relationships thrive in this environment. Keep your doors and windows open. If this person is meant to be in your life, all the open doors and windows in the world won’t make them leave.
• There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind on snow, rain on trees, wave on stone. It is the language of dream, gesture, symbol, memory. We have forgotten this language. We do not even remember that it exists. ~Derrick Jensen, from A Language Older Than Words