- “The fact that you’re struggling doesn’t make you a burden. It doesn’t make you unloveable or undesirable or undeserving of care. It doesn’t make you too much or too sensitive or too needy. It makes you human. Everyone struggles. Everyone has a difficult time coping, and at times, we all fall apart. During these times, we aren’t always easy to be around — and that’s okay. No one is easy to be around one hundred percent of the time. Yes, you may sometimes be unpleasant or difficult. And yes, you may sometimes do or say things that make the people around you feel helpless or sad. But those things aren’t all of who you are and they certainly don’t discount your worth as a human being. The truth is that you can be struggling and still be loved. You can be difficult and still be cared for. You can be less than perfect, and still be deserving of compassion and kindness.” - Daniell Koepke
- “I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. If you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good, either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.” - Roald Dahl
- “Close your eyes & imagine the best version of you possible. That’s who you really are, let go of any part of you that doesn’t believe it.” - C. Assaad
- “Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.” - Kurt Vonnegut
- “It's hard not to believe what other people tell you, at any age, no matter how bitter or optimistic or utterly imaginary they are. It's challenging to look deep within, at your own heart, to find your own answers. It's tough to trust those answers even when you do find them.” - Ask Polly
- “Many people, whether they're far from home or living next door to their parents, have a recurring feeling that they're swimming through a world they can't tolerate anymore.” - Ask Polly
- “We are ALL entitled to our own personally crafted definitions. If we're being true to ourselves, that authenticity is sure to make us a freak in someone else's eyes. We all have a right to make our own labels.” - Ask Polly
- “Once you know better, do better.” - Amy Young
- “Do not look at yourself with disgust, you are a gift to this earth. You are beautiful, you are a light, an energy, an essence. You are nature herself.” - Heidi Pickett
- “Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness” - Kurt Vonnegut
- “Rudeness is merely an expression of fear. People fear they won't get what they want. The most dreadful and unattractive person only needs to be loved, and they will open up like a flower.” — The Grand Budapest Hotel
- “When the destiny of a great fortune is at stake, men's greed spreads like a poison in the bloodstream. Uncles, nephews, cousins, in-laws of increasingly tenous connections. The old woman's distant relations had come foraging out of the woodwork.” — The Grand Budapest Hotel
- “The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson
- “... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson
- “The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson
- “Folk tröttnar snart på saker som inte är tråkiga — det är i regel dom tråkiga sakerna dom inte ledsnar på. Det är så det är. I mitt liv står jag ut med att ha tråkigt, men inte med att tröttna på saker. Dom flesta människor kan inte skilja på dom två sakerna.” — Kafka på stranden
- “'Den som frågar är skamsen i ögonblicket, den som inte frågar är skamsen för alltid.'” — Kafka på stranden
- “Jag har alltid varit en stor Chunichi Dragons-fan, tänkte han. Men vad betyder Dragons egentligen för mig? Säg att de slår Giants — kommer det att göra mig till en bättre person? Hur skulle det kunna göra det? Så varför i helvete har jag ägnat så mycket tid åt det här laget att man skulle kunna tro att det var någon sorts del av mig själv?” — Kafka på stranden
- “"Folk som inte fattar på en gång, dom fattar det aldrig."” — Kafka på stranden
- “The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.” — Alice Walker
- “To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash.” — Bill Nye
- “"Det är väl för fan inte fegt att slå tjejer!" hade hon rutit åt rektorn, "ungen är för fan inte dum i huvudet för att han slår en tjej! Han är dum i huvudet för att han SLÅR!"” — Min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt
- “För som alla jägare har skuggor en riktigt stor svaghet: de fäster all sin uppmärksamhet på det de jagar, istället för att se hela omgivningen. Den som blir jagad däremot, ägnar hela sin uppmärksamhet åt att hitta en flyktväg. Det är ingen gigantisk fördel, men det är en fördel.” — Min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt
- “"Bara annorlunda människor förändrar världen, ingen som är normal har någonsin förändrat ett skit", brukade mormor säga.” — Min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt
- “Och det var så folket i Miaudacas lärde sig att en drottning bara har all makt så länge alla hennes undersåtar är rädda för konflikter.” — Min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt
- “You really shouldn’t say ‘I love you’ unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.” — Jessica, age 8
- “When you throw a 'but' into an apology, everything before it becomes void. It's no longer an apology, it just becomes another excuse.” — Ricky Whittle
- “Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.” — Anna Lappe
- “The universe is composed of subjects to be communed with, not objects to be exploited. Everything has its own voice. Thunder and lightning and stars and planets, flowers, birds, animals, trees — all these have voices, and they constitute a community of existence that is profoundly related.” — Thomas Berry
- “No one ever stumbled on to anything great while they were standing still. You have got to move. The pursuit of dreams inspires personal growth and development. Never stop defining your vision of what life could be.” — thelittleflowerpetal
- “You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in process, simultaneously.” — Sophia Bush
- “A graceful spirit and an artful heart will get you far in life.” — streetfeatherproject
- “You think you’re in love and this is the one and this is it. You may be right, but before you move heaven and earth and split the sea down the middle to make it work, take their hand in yours, turn the lights off, turn your computers and phones and the tv off. Shut yourself off from the world. Is this someone you can sit with in the darkness? Is this someone you can sit with in silence? Is this someone you can spend hours doing nothing else but counting the distance between lightning and thunder? Because life is more than a forever of picture perfect moments - it’s darkness, and silence and interludes in which you hold your breath. Forever should not feel like forever, it should feel like no time at all; it should feel like a blink of an eye; an interlude between the lightning strike and a thunder.” — Marina V
- “To heal a wound you need to stop touching it.” — Unknown
- “You are what you love, not who loves you.” — Unknown
- “Don't be scared to be a bitch.” — Unknown
- “You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.” — Henry Ford
- “Vincent Van Gogh used to eat yellow paint because he thought it would get the happiness inside him. Many people thought he was mad and stupid for doing so because the paint was toxic, never mind that it was obvious that eating paint couldn’t possible have any direct correlation to one’s happiness, but I never saw that. If you were so unhappy that even the maddest ideas could possible work, like painting the walls of your internal organs yellow, than you are going to do it. It’s really no different than falling in love or taking drugs. There is a greater risk of getting your heart broken or overdosing, but people still do it everyday because there was always that chance it could make things better. Everyone has their yellow paint.” — Unknown
- “Flood people with compliments. Make eye contact. Don’t be the first one to let go of a hug. Push yourself to run faster and further. Listen intentionally. Do it without expecting anything in return. Give generously without selfish gain.” — Unknown
- “The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.” — Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- “Before you say yes, get him angry. See him scared, see him wanting, see him sick. Stress changes a person. Find out if he drinks and if he does, get him drunk - you’ll learn more about his sober thoughts. Discover his addictions. See if he puts you in front of them. You can’t change people, baby girl. If they are made one way, it doesn’t just wear off. If you hate how he acts when he’s out of it now, you’re going to hate it much worse eight years down the road. You might love him to bits but it doesn’t change that some people just don’t fit.” — inkskinned
- “Be nice to everyone, don’t get mad over little things, tip well. You never know if someone is going home to someone who hits them or if they’re contemplating suicide. We just treat people we come in contact with like things instead of people too much. They may carry the small rude thing you said to them around with them all week.” — Unknown
- “No one is really busy. It all depends on what number you are on their priority list.” — Unknown
- “He is not the sun. You are.” — Christina Yang
- “My father used to say, “Don’t raise your voice. Improve your argument.”” — Archbishop Desmond Tutu
- “I found that every single successful person I’ve ever spoken to had a turning point and the turning point was where they made a clear, specific, unequivocal decision that they were not going to live like this anymore. Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50 and most never make it at all.” — Brian Tracy
- “Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind, I tell you. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not others, it is your own mind.” — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
- “Many problems appear hard, but only because we are not yet smart enough to solve them.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson
- “The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.” — T.H. White
- “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” — Jiddu Krishnamurti
- “- Britt-Marie har inte alltid varit så där. Hon är bara...ensam. / - Hon har ju Kent! / Mamma blinkar så länge att hon blundar. / - Det finns många sätt att vara ensam på, älskling.” — Min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt
- “Allt är liksom lätt när man kan det!” — Min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt
- “"Jävlas aldrig med någon som har mer fritid än du", brukade mormor säga.” — Min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt
- “Det är lättare att få folk att prata om saker de ogillar än saker de gillar, har Elsa märkt.” — Min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt
- “No matter in what direction you move as an artist, it's important to keep going.” — Unknown
- “Develop a strong opinion about yourself so that you are not deceived into believing what other people say about you.” — Unknown
- “People who truly love you will accept the change that happens in you.” — Kriti G
- “Most of us find our own voices only after we've sounded like a lot of other people.” — Neil Gaiman
- “Note to self: don't seek to be relevant, or liked, seek to be undeniable. Seek to be compassionate. Seek integrity. Seek humility. Seek light.” — Unknown
- “Everyone tells you what to do and what's good for you. They don't want you to find your own answers. They want you to believe theirs.” — Dan Millman
- “If you're not willing to go places other people won't go, you won't get the shot they don't.” — Unknown
- “You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.” — Alan Watts
- “You must go on a long journey before you can really find out how wonderful home is.” — Tove Jansson
- “Sometimes you have to wander around until you find where you really belong. And sometimes it's right where you started.” — Rachel Gibson
- “Do one thing every day that scares you.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
- “It doesn't matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” — Confucius
- “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “Om man inte tycker om människor kan de inte såra en. Nästan åttaåringar som ofta blir kallade annorlunda lär sig det fort.” — Min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt
- “— Det är svårt att hjälpa den som inte vill hjälpa sig själv, viskar kvinnan. / — Den som vill hjälpa sig själv är kanske inte den som behöver hjälp från andra, invänder Elsa.” — Min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt
- “Dödens mäktigaste kraft är inte att den kan få människor att dö, utan att den kan få människorna som lämnas kvar att vilja sluta leva.” — Min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt
- “Sorgen och saknaden är konstant, men om vi alla var tvungna att gå runt och bära på den resten av våra liv skulle ingen någonsin stå ut med någonting alls. Ledsamheten skulle förlama oss. Så vi packar den till slut bara i väskor och hittar någonstans att ställa ner den.” — Min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt
- “Slåss inte med monster, ty du kan bli ett. Om du ser ner i avgrunden länge nog, ser avgrunden ner i dig.” — Min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt
- “[...] jag tror att det kanske betyder att om du hatar den som hatar så riskerar du att bli som den du hatar.” — Min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt
- “Hon vet att allt måste bli mörkare och hemskare innan det blir bra på slutet. För alla de bästa sagorna funkar så.” — Min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt
- “— Sam var trasig innan han blev soldat. Och alla soldater är för fan inte så där. Men om man ser den skiten som de där pojkarna såg så behöver man för fan hjälp när man kommer hem. Och det här landet är så förbannat redo att lägga miljarder på vapen och stridsflygplan, men när de där pojkarna kommer hem och har sett den där skiten som de har sett så är det ingen som ens har råd att lyssna på deras historier i fem minuter. / Han tittar bedrövat på Elsa. / — Folk måste få berätta sina historier, Elsa. Annars kvävs vi.” — Min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt
- “För livet är ju väldigt komplicerat och väldigt enkelt på samma gång.” — Min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt
- “Don't let anyone ever make you feel like you don't deserve what you want.” — 10 Things I Hate About You
- “Är du inte nogrann visar det sig alltid i slutändan.” — Allan Svensson
- “”Kan man inte uttrycka vad man menar, tvingas man mena det man kan uttrycka” / Ett fattigt språk gör dig dummare än du är. Eller i varje fall får ett fattigt språk dig att framstå som dummare än du är. I det rika språket bor nyanserna, i det fattiga bor förenklingarna. Ett fattigt språk hämmar känslor, hämmar tanke, hämmar associationer. Ett rikt språk är en förutsättning för en rik tanke, har man bara ett sätt att uttrycka en åsikt eller en känsla på blir tillvaron torftig, och man blir själv torftig. / Livet kräver nyanser, också i uttrycket.” - Under hatten på Steffo
- “Men låt mig åter upprepa: ”Kan man inte uttrycka vad man menar, tvingas man mena det man kan uttrycka.” / Man ska tänka på det när man möter invandrare eller ungdomar som vuxit upp i en språkligt torftig miljö — bakom det fattiga språket finns troligen en mycket mer nyanserad människa.” - Under hatten på Steffo
- “Kroppsspråket uttrycker inte bara hur du mår, utan det påverkar också hur du mår.” — Amy Cuddy
- “Närvaro är att reagera på det som sker utan att oroas över vad som ska hända.” — Amy Cuddy
- “Även om du har idéer måste dina händer vara förmögna att uttrycka dem. Hela livet är en process för lärande.” — Ana Ros
- “My guiding design principle fits in well with that of William Morris, who once said, ”Have nothing in your home that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” — Sarah Richardson
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