- If it is not from the heart, it is not worth doing.
- It does not do to dwell on dreams...and forget to live. ~Albus Dumbledore
- We must be our own before we can be another's. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but *no flowers grow on it. ~Vincent van Gogh
- I only write because there is a voice within me that will not be still.
- If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. ~Casare Pavese
- There’s zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas. ~Susan Cain
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ~Aristotle
- Courage is not the absence of fear. It is doing what’s right even though you are fearful.
- Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. ~Veronica A. Shoffstall, “After a While,” 1971
- To define is to limit.
- Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. ~Rumi
- “Do not despise your inner world.” ~Wonderful letter of advice on a how to live a full life from philosopher Martha Nussbaum
- If we wanted applause, we would have joined the circus. ~Jack O’Donnell, Argo (2012)
- True courage comes not from knowing when to take a life, but from knowing when to spare one. ~Gandalf, The Hobbit
- It is by living that you find wisdom and not the search for it.
- “Who the hell said you no longer had it in you?” ~Charles Bukowski
- “A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.” ~Dave Barry
- Do it now or forever wish you had.
- Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. ~Pablo Picasso
- The only time when things get easy is when you go downhill.
- “Listen a hundred times; ponder a thousand times; speak once.” ~Turkish Proverb
- “Close some doors. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they no longer lead somewhere.” ~Paulo Coehlo
- When you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave. ~Neil Gaiman, Coraline
- All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water. And that’s the tragedy of living.” ~Iain Thomas
- Accept the words “strange,” “eccentric,” and “quirky” as the highest of compliments.” ~Michael Boiano
- "I am poppies in the field, red and cold. I am sleeping alone, and I am light. I am light. I am light." ~La Bella Betina
- “I am the Walker and the Maze.” ~Catherynne M. Valente, from The Labyrinth
- You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it
- My heart was too big for my body, so I let it go. ~Anis Mojgani
- No one has ever become poor by giving. ~Anne Frank
- My pen shall heal, not hurt. ~L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs
- When you hear a great song, it touches your life. It affects you, it’s like a scent, it reminds you of something. You fuck to it, you feel blue to it, you feel great to it.
- If they don’t need you, it’s okay, you do not live for other people. ~Kyo
- It's inevitable to lose from time to time. The point is: don't get used to defeats. ~Paulo Coelho
- Only a mediocre person is always at his best. ~William Somerset Maugham
- “You and I both know, the dark doesn’t make the bruises disappear. It just makes them harder to see.” ~I Wrote *This For You: The Bandages Are Made Of Shadows
- “Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.” ~Yoda
- “I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold.” ~Virginia Woolf, The Waves
- We are all museums of fear. ~Charles Bukowski, “Poem for Nobody”
- Delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts. ~Henry Lee
- Memory is more indelible than ink. ~Anita Loos
- Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats. ~Sue Grafton
- Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. ~Charlotte Brontë
- Dreams are touchstones of our character. ~Henry David Thoreau
- Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them. ~Margaret Mitchell
- I know I am but the summer in your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed. ~C.J Cherryh
- We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. ~John Wesley Powell
- Nature is cruel, but we don't have to be. ~Temple Grandin
- The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished. ~Nelson DeMille
- The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves. ~V.S. Naipaul
- Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said. ~Katherine Boo
- Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass. ~Jonathan Kellerman
- “It’s not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters”.
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