- "Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live." - Charles Bukowski
- "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."- Oscar Wilde
- "Life is like that. Some days are diamonds and some days are stones." - Jann Arden
- "Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." - Benjamin Franklin
- "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler." - Henry David Thoreau
- "Whatever you do in life will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." - Gandhi
- "Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings". - Elizabeth Gilbert
- "The karmic philosophy appeals to me on a metaphorical level because even in one's lifetime it's obvious how often we must repeat our same mistakes, banging our heads against the same old addictions and compulsions, generating the same old miserable and often catastrophic consequences, until we can finally stop and fix it... take care of the problems now, or else you'll just have to suffer again later when you screw everything up the next time. And that repetition of suffering - that's hell." - Elizabeth Gilbert
- "Be mindful and curious and gentle with yourself. Be present for your own life. Show up. Just a reminder."
- “The secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.”
* - William Morris
- "If you don't acknowledge it and feel it, it will never get out of your way. Unacknowledged feelings are like a drunken cousin at a family reunion, they never shut up so you can hear anyone else. And you have to be able to hear what's next in your life, what path you might want to travel down. You have to be able to see what's there, right in front of your eyes." - Brothers & Sisters
- "Life is too short to wake up with regrets. Love the people who treat you right. Forget about the ones who don’t. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy. They just promised it would be worth it."
- "The rest of your life is being shaped right now you can choose to blame your circumstances on fate or bad luck or bad choices or you can fight back." - One Tree Hill
- "You have to go charging ahead, you can't stay behind." - Grace Coddington
- "The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!” - Jack Kerouac
- "The hardest thing to do is leaving your comfort zone. But you have to let go of the life you're familiar with and take the risk to live the life you dream about." -T. Arigo
- "Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us." - Alan Cohen
- "It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power." - Alan Cohen
- "The world is too fragile for people to be untrue. There's too much at stake and life's too short for lies. And you're the worst kind of person in the world cause you wasted my heart, my time." - Brothers & Sisters
- "One will never reach distant shores, if he chooses to remain upon the dock, In fear his little ship of dreams may be dashed against the rocks." - F. Bolen.
- "Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day." - Rainer Maria Rilke
- "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein
- The day will happen whether or not you get up. - John Ciardi
- If you want to dance with another, root yourself first. Learn to hear your own guidance. Dialogue with the hurt child and the divine host within. Practice forgiveness and compassion for yourself.
* - Paul Ferrini
- “Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.” – Mark Jenkins
- Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "this is going to take more than one night." - Charles M. Schultz
- "A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." - Herm Albright
- "There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them." - Lawrence Welk
- "God knows, there's enough to worry about without worrying about worrying about things." - Edward Gorey
- "The less you bet, the more you lose when you win." - Jared Leto
- “He’s not perfect. You aren’t either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can. He isn’t going to quote poetry, he’s not thinking about you every moment, but he will give you a part of him that he knows you could break. Don’t hurt him, don’t change him, and don’t expect for more than he can give. Don’t analyze. Smile when he makes you happy, yell when he makes you mad, and miss him when he’s not there. Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.”
- ― Bob Marley
- "I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well." — Diane Ackerman
- "A lot of people like to fool you and say that you’re not smart if you never went to college, but common sense rules over everything. That’s what I learned from selling crack." — Snoop Dogg
- “You are the books you read, the films you watch, the music you listen to, the people you meet, the dreams you have, and the conversations you engage in. You are what you take from these. You are the sound of the ocean, breath of the fresh air, the brightest light and the darkest corner. You are a collective of every experience you have had in your life. You are every single second of every day. So drown yourself in a sea of knowledge and existence. Let the words run through your veins and the colours fill your mind until there is nothing left to do but explode.” — Jac Vanek
- When you travel, you discover as much about yourself as you do about the world.
- Recognize a heart of gold. In yourself or in others. They are rare. Don't let someone turn a gold heart to stone. Love hard.
- Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. -Mark Twain
- Be the girl who wants him, but doesn't need him.
- I’m always wondering if he’ll return. Sometimes I pray that he doesn’t, and sometimes I hope he will. I wish on falling stars and eyelashes.
- Absence isn’t solid the way death is. It’s fluid, like language, and it hurts so much. So, so much.
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