these quotes reflect what i've been thinking or feeling in a more profound way than i could ever explain

On living life

❛ The best way to waste your life, ... is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate. ❜

• chuck palahniuk

❛ The only way to find true happiness is to risk being cut completely open. ❜

• chuck palahniuk

❛ If you only do what you know you can do, you never do very much. ❜

• tom krause

❛ Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it all together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength. ❜

❛ Love life, engage in it, give it all you've got. Love it with a passion, because love truly does give back, many time over, what you put in it. ❜

• maya angelou

❛ Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. ❜

• steve jobs

On valuing you

❛ Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious riches that cannot be stolen from you. ❜

• oscar wilde

❛ Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. ❜

• benjamin spock

❛ I've learned that making a living is not the same as making a life. ❜

• maya angelou

❛ A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. ❜

• lao tzu

On relationships

❛ Whenever you're in conflict with someone else, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That difference is attitude. ❜

• william james

❛ I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. ❜

• maya angelou

On creativity

❛ You can't turn creativity on and off like a faucet. You need to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last minute panic. ❜

• calvin & hobbes