- Tell everyone you know: “My happiness depends on me, so you’re off the hook.” And then demonstrate it. Be happy, no matter what they’re doing. Practice feeling good, no matter what. And before you know it, you will not give anyone else responsibility for the way you feel - and then, you’ll love them all. Because the only reason you don’t love them, is because you’re using them as your excuse to not feel good. ~ Esther Hicks
- Most things about me are hard to explain, I guess, like how I’m mostly delusional and live in a half-imaginary world but am also a realist to the core. I’m just a bunch of contradictions most of the time and I don’t like it, but I also do. ~ Unknown
- I can’t be lying on my deathbed, at 19, or 30, or 88, and be asked ‘did you accomplish everything you wanted to?’ and the answer being no, because all I had done my whole fucking existence was avoid pizza and chocolate and peanut butter. Because taste is part of the five senses and it’s part of being alive. Because I’m not going to be dropped down six feet on a rainy Thursday when I’m afraid of having a bowl of ice cream with the people I love because the voices in my head have reduced Ben & Jerry’s to nothing but numbers and percent signs which, when you really think about it, never actually meant anything at all. ~ Unknown
- I was angry, so I went for a run. And things got better. I was confused, so I went for a run. And things got better. I was exhausted, so I went for a run. And things got better. I was lost, unsure, empty, afraid. Certain that whatever was left of my sanity had snapped, had come untethered and floated away, to a place so high and remote that I would never see it again, and that even if I did, I wouldn’t recognize it. So I went for a run. And things got better. I felt like things could not possibly get worse, so I went for a run. And things got better. (Another time, I felt like things could not get much better. I went for a run. Things got much better.) After enough miles, over enough runs and enough years, I realized: No matter what, no matter when, or where, or why, I can find my shoes and go for a run and things will get better. And that realization? Just knowing that? It made things better. ~ Mark Remy, Runners World
- Imagine,if everyone was just fucking honest with each other what the world would be like. I love you, would not mean I don’t. I’ll call, would never mean I won’t. ~ e.m.f.p
- Live the life you’d be envious of if you saw someone else living it. This is my personal mantra. Whenever I’m going through a difficult time, like a breakup, and I’m wishing to be the person who could get over it and move on, I tell myself to be that person. Instead of waiting to be inspired by someone else and being jealous that they’re living a life I wish I had, I tell myself not to wait for that moment and to start being the person I want to be. If you wish you were the woman who went for that big promotion, learned a second language, dumped that guy who cheated on you, then just be that person. Think, if I have the energy to wish for it, I have the energy to do it. ~ Olivia Munn
- I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself. ~ Unknown
- Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be? ~ Danielle LaPorte
- Half the world’s starving; the other half is trying to lose weight. ~ Roseanne Barr
- You either like me or you don’t. It took me twenty-something years to learn how to love myself, I don’t have that kinda time to convince somebody else. ~ Daniel Franzese
- Instead of saying “I don’t have time” try saying “it’s not a priority,” and see how that feels. Often, that’s a perfectly adequate explanation. I have time to iron my sheets, I just don’t want to. But other things are harder. Try it: “I’m not going to edit your résumé, sweetie, because it’s not a priority.” “I don’t go to the doctor because my health is not a priority.” If these phrases don’t sit well, that’s the point. Changing our language reminds us that time is a choice. If we don’t like how we’re spending an hour, we can choose differently. ~ Unknown
- Feminism has fought no wars. It has killed no opponents. It has set up no concentration camps, starved no enemies, practiced no cruelties. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety in the streets, for child care, for social welfare, for rape crisis centres, women’s refuges, reforms in the law. If someone says, ‘Oh, I’m not a feminist’, I ask, ‘Why? What’s your problem?’ ~ Dale Spender, Man Made Language
- Don’t change so that people will like you. Be the real you and the right people will love you. Don’t give up yourself - and stoop to be a counterfeit. ~ Unknown
- Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack. ~ Unknown
- I got dressed this morning. For myself. Put on eye liner. For myself. Put on my favorite red lipstick. For myself. Showed a bit of skin. For myself. I wanted to be beautiful. For myself. ~ Unknown
- I’m self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes. ~ Bjork on ‘Self-Sufficiency’
- Make it happen. Shock everyone. ~ Unknown
- Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive. ~ Hafiz
- Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. ~ Rumi
- They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon
- I no longer have the energy for meaningless friendships, forced interactions or unnecessary conversations. If we don’t vibrate on the same frequency there’s just no reason for us to waste our time. I’d rather have no one and wait for substance than to not feel someone and fake the funk. ~ Joquesse Eugenia
- Having a low opinion of yourself is not modesty. It’s self-destruction. ~ Bobby Sommer
- I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university. ~ Albert Einstein
- Where we go from here doesn’t scare me, as long as we go together. ~ Haiku on Travel
- how stupid of me; to think I was the only flower in your garden. ~ 6 a.m. thoughts
- Be with someone who talks about you like you put stars in the sky. ~ Unknown
- I’m sorry you were not truly loved and that it made you cruel. ~ Warsan Shire
- Work until your idols become your rivals. ~ Unknown
- If we grew our own food, we wouldn’t waste a third of it as we do today. If we made our own tables and chairs, we wouldn’t throw them out the moment we changed the interior decor. If we had to clean our own drinking water, we probably wouldn’t contaminate it. ~ Mark Boyle
- When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth. ~ Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
- Travel. As much as you can. As far as you can. As long as you can. Life’s not meant to be lived in one place. ~ Unknown
- You deserve the kind of love you would give someone else. ~ Unknown
- I’ve been feeling dead lately. Not the kind of dead where you wish you were alive again, but the kind of dead where you wish you had lived. ~ Unknown
- Stop waiting for friday, for summer, for a boy to fall in love with you. Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for it and make something of the moment you’re in right now. ~ e-stablish
- I need to make myself strong on the inside instead of what is on the outside. I know all of this, but why can’t I put any of it into action? I guess that’s why I am in this place. ~ Piper Caleb
- Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place. ~ Kurt Vonnegut
- There are 6,775,235,842 people in the world. Why are you letting one of them ruin your life? ~ Alfredo Flores
- There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
- How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you? ~ Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
- That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons. ~ Dave Grohl
- When you start to know someone, all their physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in their energy, recognize the scent of their skin. You see only the essence of the person, not the shell. That’s why you can’t fall in love with beauty. You can lust after it, be infatuated by it, want to own it. You can love it with your eyes and your body but not your heart. And that’s why, when you really connect with a person’s inner self, any physical imperfections disappear, become irrelevant. ~ Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies
- Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics. You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements – the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution and for life – weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today. ~ Lawrence Krauss
- It’s better to have nobody, than to have someone who is half there, or doesn’t want to be there. ~ Unknown
- Fall in love with someone who’s comfortable with your silence. Find someone who doesn’t need your words to know it’s time to kiss you. ~ Clairabelle Ann
- Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve. ~ Carol Shields, The Republic of Love
- Before befriending others, you have to be your own best friend. Before correcting others, you have to correct yourself. Before making others happy, you have to make yourself happy. It is not termed as selfish but personal development. Once you balance yourself, only then you can balance the world. ~ Unknown
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