- A lot of times in my past, I’ve kinda felt like I was hiding from myself. I’ve read a lot of books about happiness and peace and those self-help books and they all say, “go inside yourself.” But I always asked, “What happens if I finally get inside myself and discover I really don’t like what’s there?” … Y’know those little Russian dolls, the ones that fit inside one another? … Even as a little kid, I always had this image in my head that I was the smallest one, the one that fits deep inside all the others. And this way, I would have so many layers around me that people could never hurt me or find me. But… what if I tried to somehow break through all the shells and twist them until they snap apart? You’ll eventually find the real me. ~ Katharine McPhee
- Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart. ~ Phil Jackson
- And in that moment, I swear... we were infinite. ~ The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose. ~ Friday Night Lights
- Dear Diary, today will be different — it has to be. I will smile and it will be believable. The smile will say 'I'm fine, thank you. Yes, I feel much better.' I will no longer be the sad little girl who lost her parents. I will start fresh. Be someone new. It's the only way I'll make it through. ~ Elena Gilbert, The Vampire Diaries
- Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone and do not be troubled for the future for it is yet to come. Live in the present and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering. ~ Ida Scott Taylor
- Girls are taught a lot of stuff growing up: if a guy punches you, he likes you; never try to trim your own bangs; and someday you will meet a wonderful guy and get your very own happy ending. Every movie we see, every story we’re told implores us to wait for it: the third act twist, the unexpected declaration of love, the exception to the rule. But sometimes, we’re so focused on finding our happy ending we don’t learn how to read the signs: how to tell from the ones who want us and the ones who don’t, the ones who will stay from the ones who will leave. And maybe this happy ending doesn’t include a wonderful guy. Maybe it’s you on your own, picking up the pieces and starting over, freeing yourself up for something better in the future. Maybe the happy ending is just moving on. Or maybe the happy ending is this: knowing that through all the unreturned phone calls and broken hearts, through the blunders and misread signals, through all the pain and embarrassment, you never ever gave up hope ~ Gigi Phillips, He's Just Not That Into You
- Hard work pays off, it really does. It’s really rewarding and if you look back now, like you go to school and if you’re happy doing what you doing and you work hard towards what you want, then it’ll pay off. ~ Jenna Ushkowitz
- I would have stolen you a whole orchestra. ~ Ted Mosby, How I Met Your Mother
- If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary-wise, what it is, it wouldn’t be, and what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see? ~ Alice in Wonderland
- It’s never too late to be what you could have been. ~ George Elliot
- Look, we are human, we make mistakes. I will gladly shout from the rooftops that I am not perfect. Nor will I ever be. But I can happily say that to my knowledge, I do not ever intentionally cause people pain. ~ Dianna Agron [x]
- Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it’s not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere. ~ Barack Obama
- Most importantly, to all those amazing kids who watch our show and the kids that our show celebrates who are constantly told ‘no’ by the people in their environments, by the bullies at school, that are told they can’t be who they are, or have what they want ‘cause of who they are, well — screw that, kids. ~ Chris Colfer
- Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing. ~ Sylvia Plath
- So I’ve been thinking about this whole “being happy” thing … and I feel like people get lost when they think of happiness as a destination. We’re always thinking that someday we’ll be happy. Y’know, we’ll get that car or that job or that person in our lives that will fix everything. But happiness is a mood and it’s a condition, not a destination. It’s like being tired or hungry; it’s not permanent. It comes and goes and that’s OK. And I feel like if people thought if it that way, they’d find happiness more often. ~ Julian Baker, One Tree Hill
- They can’t quite pull out of you what somebody that you know (can). It’s like you always hurt the ones you love, you know? Like someone – you always hurt them the most and they’ll hurt you the most. The better you know somebody, the more you can push their buttons, and the more your buttons can be pushed. ~ Jared Padalecki [x]
- Well everyday for me, personally, I wake up and realize that I’m living a day that I never thought I would ever live. So for me, it’s been the most rewarding experience. ~ Jenna Ushkowitz
- When I think of everyone else out there in the world that goes through their life alone, and then I think of all the amazing years I’ve gotten to spend with my beautiful, beautiful best friend Brooke Davis... I kind of feel sorry for everyone else ~ Peyton Sawyer, One Tree Hill
- When you’re a kid, it’s simple. Christmas is magic. It’s a time of miracles, when reindeer can fly & Frosty never melts. Then you get older. Somehow, things change. The magic begins to fade. Until something happens that will remind you, at Christmas time, miracles can still be found. Sometimes in the most unexpected places. ~ The Wonder Years
- Whenever we give up something we really care about, we hope that the universe will reward our selfless choice, however, it’s not always fate that gives us a gift. Sometimes, it’s someone closer to home. ~ Gossip Girl
- Whether it’s a heart attack or heartbreaks, just like Broadway, the show must go on. ~ Rachel Berry, Glee
- Wildlife and environmental conservation has always been not just a passion, but a priority of mine. When I began to find that through my work as an actor, I was gaining an increasingly prominent platform in front of the American public, I knew right away what I wanted to do with it. The IS Foundation is my attempt to use this opportunity, this share of the public's attention, for the greater good. ~ Ian Somerhalder
- You are more than a list of mistakes and if anyone tells you otherwise, let it be the last they make. ~ I Wrote This For You [x]
- You can do whatever you want, you just have to know what that is ~ Abed Nadir, Community
- You know the best thing about a paper jam? It forces you to open up the machine and figure out what went wrong in the first place. ~ Julian Baker, One Tree Hill
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