Living Life Quotes and Live Life Quotes

“Life is a long lesson in humility.”

“What’s really amazing is when you can actually feel your life going somewhere… like it finally figured out how to get good.”

“A person doesn’t have to be perfect to be exactly what you need.” -Dr. Elliot Reid

“The rain WILL stop, the night WILL end, the hurt WILL fade. Hope is never so lost that it can’t be found.” -Mandy Hale

“Sometimes God has to break us to make us. It’s just a bend, it’s not the end. We’re all like glow sticks, no matter how much we’re bent and broken our light still shines.” -DeAndre Carswell

“One day you will realize that material things mean nothing. All that matters is the well-being of the people in your life.” -Leon Brown

“It’s sad how quickly people can forget about you, until they want something from you.”

“Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.” -Joel Osteen

“Sometimes you have to experience the bad, so that you can learn to appreciate the good things that enter your life.” -Leon Brown

“I may not be where I need to be but I thank God I am not where I used to be!” -Joyce Meyers

“Sometimes you have to LOVE people from a DISTANCE and give them the SPACE and TIME to get their MINDS right before you let them back into your LIFE.”

Your life will get better when you spend more time building your real life and less time watching reality tv. -Thema Davis

“Do what your heart desires, never hold back a thing, and don’t worry so much about what the others think, because at the end of the day, what makes you happy is what really matters the most.” -unknown

“Do not chase people. Be you and do your own thing and work hard. The right people who belong in your life will come to you and stay.” -Wu Tang

“Do not wonder why things are “taking so long.” In fact, everything is rolling out exactly as it needs to, using not a minute more than Perfection requires. Rest easy and be at peace. Life is working its magic even as you take your very next breath.” -Neale Donald Walsch

“Stop and make sure that everything you are doing right now is really what makes you happy. You can’t just live for some goal in the future and have that be everything . . . have that be it. Because that is what some people do. They get on this road and there are all these signs saying, ‘This way. That way.’ But what if you get there, you get exactly what you wanted, like some people do, except all the things that were wrong, are still wrong. Then what?” -Party of Five

“If you still talk about it, you still care about it.”

“The only person I can try to be better than, is the person I was yesterday.”

“Today is a brand new day. A fresh start. Replace any negativity with positivity. Think happy thoughts. Exercise. Drink lots of water. Fill your body with fuel. Healthy is happy. Inspire yourself. Create. Laugh. Play. Love. Learn. Give someone a compliment. Make a new friend. Do a random act of kindness. It creates good karma. Take chances and finally start living life to its fullest. But no matter what’s thrown at you today, smile and remember, tomorrow’s always a fresh new start.” -unknown

“There are certain things in life where you know it’s a mistake but you don’t really know it’s a mistake because the only way to really know it is a mistake is to make that mistake and look back and say, “Yup, that was a mistake”. So really, the bigger mistake would be to not make the mistake because then you’ll go your whole life not really knowing if something is a mistake or not. And damn it, I made no mistakes. I’ve done all of this: my life, my relationship, my career mistakes-free.” -How I Met Your Mother (Episode 21)

“Don’t judge someone’s choices without first knowing their reason.”

“The true story is the realization that no time in your life is ever perfect, that even the best memories have cracks you might not see.”

“No other animal knows the difference between Friday and Monday.”

“Whenever you find yourself doubting how far you can go, just remember how far you have come. Remember everything you have faced, all the battles you have won, and all the fears you have overcome.”

“Take a chance and never let go. Risk everything, lose nothing. Don’t worry about anything anymore. Cry in the rain and speak out loud. Say what you want and love who you desire. Be yourself and not what others want to see. Never blame anyone else if you get hurt because you took the risk and decided who was worth the while.”

“To be successful in life requires enormous sacrifice and determination. Do not follow others, for they have their own destiny. Only you alone can determine your destination. If you fail that journey, there is a path to recovery, many of us have been there. Be satisfied with what you have and your dreams will become a reality.”

“In the very moment you want to give up, give it all you got! You’re on the brink of your breakthrough.” -Aisha Martin

“Look forward with hope, not backwards with regret.”

“If you’re struggling, that means you’re progressing.”

“You can’t go through life protecting yourself from everything; you have to take chances, because if you don’t then you might as well not be living.”

“Life is like a camera. Just focus on what’s important and capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if things don’t work out, just take another shot.”

“Aspire to inspire before you expire.” -unknown

“Protect your spirit from contamination. Limit your time with negative people.” -Thema Davis

“A girl should be like a butterfly, pretty to see and hard to catch.”

“Don’t create conversations in your head, because they don’t usually go as planned and you’re left with disappointment.”

“To make a woman happy, give her these three things: attention, affection and appreciation.”

“When you release expectations, you are free to enjoy things for what they are instead of what you think they should be.” -Mandy Hale

“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” -Chuck Palahniuk

“Men with good intentions make promises. Men with good character keep them.” -unknown

“If you keep running back to the person that you need to walk away from… you’ll never create space for better things to arrive.”

“People build too many walls and not enough bridges.” -Isaac Newton

“Be yourself. Who else is better qualified.”

“The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.” -C. JoyBell C.

“Before you quit, try. Before you talk, listen. Before you react, think. Before you criticize, wait. Before you move-on, forgive.”

“As I’ve grown up, I’ve learned several things. Life is full of disappointments and people you trusted will sooner or later let you down. I’ve learned that often those you love will love someone else and there’s only one way to fall – fast and hard. I’ve learned that out of thousands of smiles, it takes one to touch your heart. I’ve found that words can be deceiving but the truth always lies in a person’s eyes. I’ve learned that everything can change in the blink of an eye and tears often come without invitation. I’ve learned crying can make us stronger and there’s never too much love to go around. I’ve learned that prejudice helps no one and that weapons don’t hurt people, people hurt people.”

“Don’t hurt others just because you’re hurt.”

“Ask yourself if what you are doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow.”

“Sometimes what we learn & who we become in the process of waiting is even more important than what we’re waiting for.” – Mandy Hale

“If you can imagine it, you can create it. That beautiful world you dream about, needs positive action to come true.” -Leon Brown

“The moment you’re ready to quit is usually the moment right before the miracle happens. Don’t give up!”

“Detox your life by clearing out fake friends, dead-end jobs, and players posing as life partners.” -Thema Davis

“When you are getting ready to advance to a new season, some people will be removed from your life without warning.” -Mandy Hale

“Some of the best days of your life haven’t happened yet.”

“You may have failed, but you are not a failure. That’s what you did. That’s not who you are.” -Joel Osteen

“Be wise enough to walk away from the nonsense around you.”

“There comes a time in life when you’ll have to leave everything behind and start something new but never forget the ones who stood by your side, especially the ones who never gave up on you.”

“Surround yourself with positive people who will support you during your bad days, not just your good days.”

“No matter what pain you’ve been through, tears will dry, broken hearts will heal, and somewhere a person who truly cares is waiting for you.”

“It is what it is. It was what it was.”

“I’ve learned that: goodbyes will always hurt, pictures can never replace being there, memories forget the hard times, words can never replace feelings, and heros often go unsung.”

“Beauty is not defined by the size of your jeans but by the size of your heart.”

“SMILE. The best thing you can do to irritate those who wish to destroy you.”

“Sometimes a poor past turns out to be the best investment in a promising future.” -Susan Gale

Don’t overthink. Just let it go.

“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief…and unspeakable love.”

“Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8 color boxes, but what you’re really looking for are the 64 color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64 color box, though I’ve got a few missing. It’s okay though, because I’ve got some more vibrant colors like periwinkle at my disposal. I have a bit of a problem though in that I can only meet the 8 color boxes. Does anyone else have that problem? I mean there are so many different colors of life, of feeling, of articulation. So when I meet someone who’s an 8 color type…I’m like, hey girl, Magenta! and she’s like, oh, you mean purple! and she goes off on her purple thing, and I’m like, no I want Magenta!” -John Mayer

“We will find out what we need to do when we quit lying to ourselves and see the situation for what it is.”

“The best way to move forward is to let go of the people holding you back.”

“Don’t let your happiness be controlled by something you can’t control.”

“You are not just waiting in vain. There is a purpose behind every delay.” -Mandy Hale

“Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.”

“Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans.” -John Lennon

“Always focus on how far you’ve come, rather than how far you have left to go.”

“Don’t let your emotions distract you from doing what needs to be done. Control your emotions or your emotions will control you.”

“You will fall many times in life, but you will pick yourself up and become stronger and wiser for each trouble you pass.” -Leon Brown

“Don’t worry, just breathe. If it’s meant to be, it will find it’s way.”

“Figure out what makes you happy and do more of it. Figure out what doesn’t, and do less of it.” -Mandy Hale

“Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people.”

“It’s not the situation… it’s your reaction to the situation.”

You can’t calm the storm… so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass. -Timber Hawkeye

“A relationship is like a house. When a lightbulb burns out you do not go and buy a new house, you fix the light bulb.”

“Someone will always be prettier. Someone will always be smarter. Someone will always be younger. But they will never be you.” -Tanni Sattar

“Learn to appreciate what you have, before time forces you to appreciate what you had.”

“True love is worth waiting for even if it takes a lifetime. Then in return a lifetime of love will be waiting for you.”

“Wait for what you deserve. Don’t settle, just be patient.”

“Nothing is ever wrong. We learn from every step we take. Whatever you did today was the way it was meant to be. Be proud of you.”

“You get depressed because you know that you’re not what you should be.” -Marilyn Manson

“A lot of us spend our time stuck in regret, wishing our lives had turned out differently, and beating ourselves up for the decisions that have led us to this place. We feel cheated out of a life that could have been something better. We feel angry and sad and disappointed. And most of all, we feel stuck.

In these moments, it’s easy to focus on all of the things that have gone wrong. It’s easy to focus on the loss and the heartbreak and the pain, but it’s also important to remember all of the things that have gone right. It’s important to remember all of the positive experiences and friendships and growth and laughter you’ve gained — things you would have never taken part in, lessons you would have never learned, and people you would have never met had you not veered off the desired path.

The truth is that every time you thought you were missing out on something important, you were given the opportunity to experience something valuable in its own right. Every time life’s obstacles rejected you from something good, you were being redirected to something, or someone, equally wonderful. You may not have ended up where you intended to go, but trust, for once, that you have ended up where you need to be. Trust that you are in the right place at the right time. Trust that every experience has something to offer you. Trust that something that feels like a curse in the moment can blossom into a blessing. Trust that your life is enough. Trust that you are enough.” -DK

“You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too—even when you’re in the dark. Even when you’re falling.” -Mitch Albom

“God can’t hand you something new until you are willing to let go of the things that are not good for you.”

“Sometimes, people never get what they deserve because they’re too busy holding on to things they’re supposed to let go of.”

“What you want and what you need aren’t always the same. Be willing to delay short-term gratification for long-term greatness.” -Mandy Hale

“Understand that people change and sometimes they’re no longer compatible with our lives. We just have to learn to accept it and move on.”

“Understand that you own nothing. Everything that surrounds you is temporary. Only the love in your heart will last forever.” -Leon Brown

“I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.” -Jim Carrey

“You should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over and over again. You must practice staying strong, instead.” -Eat Pray Love

“What hurts you today makes you stronger tomorrow.”

“You should never have to convince someone into loving you and wanting to be with you. You deserve to see someone who can easily see what’s special in you.” -Karen Salmansohn

“I think she was afraid to love sometimes. I think it scared her. She was the type to like things that are concrete, like the ocean. Something you could point to and know what it was… And I think that’s why she struggled with love. She couldn’t touch it. She couldn’t hold on to it and make sure it never changed.” -Carrie Ryan

“Be a warrior not a worrier.”

“Pretending to be happy when you’re in pain is just an example of how strong you are as a person.”

“Take back your time, attention, energy, and emotions from anyone who treats your heart carelessly.” -Mandy Hale

“I’m stronger because of my hard times, wiser because of my mistakes, and happier because of my sad experiences.”

“Let go of the past and the past will let go of you.”

“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it’ll be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.” -John Green

“All it takes is 1 song to bring back a thousand memories.”

“When you focus on problems, you’ll have more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you’ll have more opportunities.”

“As you become more clear about who you really are, you’ll be better able to decide what is best for you.” -Oprah

“Each morning when you wake up, before you do anything else, smile.”

“Just because it’s not what you were expecting, doesn’t mean it’s not everything you’ve been waiting for.”

“There are moments in our lives when we find ourselves at a crossroad, afraid, confused, without a roadmap. The choices we make in those moments can define the rest of our days. Of course when faced with the unknown, most of us prefer to turn around and go back.” -Lucas Scott

“Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don’t fit into boxes.” -Tori Amos

“Just because you’re breathing, don’t mean you’re alive.”

“The people with the best advice are usually the ones who have been through the most.”

“As time goes on, you’ll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn’t, doesn’t. Time solves most things. And what time can’t solve, you’ll learn to solve yourself.” -Haruki Murakami

“When you know your worth, no one can make you feel worthless.”

“Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.”

“Welcome change into your life, for new beginnings bring new experiences.”

“One day, you’ll be just a memory for some people. Do your best to be a good one.”

“When one thing ends, another thing begins. Sometimes ending hurts, but a new beginning is worth the pain.”

“Nothing can take your joy; you have to give it away. You’re in complete control of your happiness.” -Joel Osteen

“Beauty is about living your life and being happy with yourself inside and out and not worrying about what people think of you.”

“Your flaws are beautiful. They’re what make you stand out. Don’t try to be normal, perfect, striving to be something or someone that you will never accomplish. Be annoying, be quirky, be different. In truth, it takes a hell of a lot more strength to resist, than to go along with the flow. Stray from the path. What anyone else thinks doesn’t matter. Let them be boring, let them be the same, as unnoticeable as the people around them. Wear flowers in your hair, mismatching socks, and thousands of multi-colored bracelets. Press all those damn buttons in the elevator, and piss off everyone around you. Have fun now, because there’s always plenty of time to be boring in the future.”

“Stop worrying about what you have to lose and start focusing on what you have to gain.”

“Never be afraid to try something new, because life gets boring when you stay within the limits of what you already know.”

“If you have your health, if you have people in your life to love, you are blessed. Slow down and enjoy the simple things in life.” -Joel Osteen

“Moving on doesn’t mean you forget about things. It just means you have to accept what happened and continue living.”

“You must learn to be patient. Patient with yourself and the people in this world. You must learn to slow down. To take some time to breathe, to notice, to appreciate what you have. Just trust that in the moment you really need an answer it will come to you clearly. You will know what you need to do, to say, to give. Believe in yourself, in the life you are leading. Trust that you can and will figure this all out. Give yourself the time and space to do that.”

“You have seeds of greatness inside of you. Today can be your new beginning. Today could be the start of something amazing.”

“Too many people are looking for something better, when everything they need is right in front of them.”

“Do not continue the battle. One may think they have won because you chose silence. But the true winner is the one with peace in their heart.”

“Try to overcome your doubt. Believe you are beautiful. Look at yourself through someone else’s green eyes. Believe someone out there will find you and kiss your skin until you can feel it blister with the heat. Believe in something bigger than your problems and you will be saved.” -Max Bemis

“To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion. To be worthy, not respectable and wealthy, not rich. To listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart. To study hard, to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common — this is my symphony.” -William Ellery Channing

“Do not take to HEART and MIND the ill spoken words of others, leave them at the door, and watch the winds of time blow them away.”

But you know what is devastating? Living a life you don’t really want because you never had the guts to live your truth. What I mean by “your truth” is what you know to be what you most want to do. The person or people you most want to love. The things that cut you open and ignite your nerves and can send you over the edge but you keep going back because you know, despite everything, that this is what’s meant for you. If nothing else, the reason to do it is this: the truth inside you will win out eventually. Or it will drive you mad. Your truth isn’t a passing thought or feeling that will just dissipate one day. You won’t get over what’s really meant for you. You will only ever become more and more aware that you’re denying yourself the greatest joy in fear of the possibly greatest disappointment. I can’t believe I’m throwing this quote in here, but I can’t think of anything that sums it up better: “the brave may not live forever, but the cautious don’t live at all.” -Brianna Wiest

“Life will always try to make things difficult for you, but every time you overcome difficulties, you come out stronger.”

“Learn from your struggles instead of reliving them.”

“We can’t jump off bridges anymore because our iPhones will get ruined. We can’t take skinny dips in the ocean, because there’s no service on the beach and adventures aren’t real unless they’re on Instagram. Technology has doomed the spontaneity of adventure and we’re helping destroy it every time we Google, check-in, and hashtag.” -Jeremy Glass, We Can’t Get Lost Anymore

“Let go of resentment, for it will hold you back. Do not worry about what could’ve been, what is to come is what matters.” -Leon Brown

“If you don’t see your worth, you’ll always choose people who don’t see it either. When your self esteem rises, your life follows.” -Mandy Hale

“Accept what is, let go of what was and have faith in what will be.” -Sonia Ricotti

“Live and let go. Do not be held down by what you can’t control.”

“Life is precious, do not waste it doing anything that your heart does not respect or agree with.” -Leon Brown

“In 20 years people won’t remember your name or achievements, or maybe even what you look like. But in 20 years they will remember how you made them feel and the memories you gave them.”

“Be quiet. Listen. Know you are heard. There are forces at work far beyond anything you can comprehend.” -Markus Rothkranz

He didn’t say anything. Maybe there wasn’t anything to say. Instead, he wrapped his arms around me again, only this time he guided my cheek onto his chest and ran his hand over the back of my head, clumsy but comforting. I closed my eyes and listened to the thud of his heart until mine matched pace with his. Finally, he rested his cheek on top of my head and whispered, ‘We don’t have time to be sad.’

“I want you to tell me about every person you’ve ever been in love with. Tell me why you loved them, then tell me why they loved you. Tell me about a day in your life you didn’t think you’d live through. Tell me what the word “home” means to you and tell me in a way that I’ll know your mother’s name just by the way you describe your bed room when you were 8. See, I wanna know the first time you felt the weight of hate and if that day still trembles beneath your bones. Do you prefer to play in puddles of rain or bounce in the bellies of snow? And if you were to build a snowman, would you rip two branches from a tree to build your snowman arms? Or would you leave the snowman armless for the sake of being harmless to the tree? And if you would, would you notice how that tree weeps for you because your snowman has no arms to hug you every time you kiss him on the cheek? Do you kiss your friends on the cheek? Do you sleep beside them when they’re sad, even if it makes your lover mad? Do you think that anger is a sincere emotion or just the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain? See, I wanna know what you think of your first name. And if you often lie awake at night and imagine your mother’s joy when she spoke it for the very first time. I want you tell me all the ways you’ve been unkind. Tell me all the ways you’ve been cruel. See, I wanna know more than what you do for a living. I wanna know how much of your life you spend just giving. And if you love yourself enough to also receive sometimes. I wanna know if you bleed sometimes through other people’s wounds.” -Andrea Gibson

“I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.” -Jack Kerouac

“Worrying about everyone’s opinion will only hold you back. Don’t let other people define what you can and can not accomplish.”

“The longer you have to wait for something, the more you will appreciate it when it finally arrives. The harder you have to fight for something, the more priceless it will become once you achieve it. And the more pain you have to endure on your journey, the sweeter the arrival at your destination. All good things are worth waiting for and worth fighting for.” -Susan Gale

“Never forget where you’ve been. Never lose sight of where you’re going. And never take for granted the people who travel the journey with you.” -Susan Gale

“Criticism is just someone else’s opinion. Even people who are experts in their fields are sometimes wrong. It is up to you to choose whether to believe some of it, none of it, or all of it. What You think is what counts.” -RC

“Know what you deserve and be patient. Don’t ever settle.”

“Work for a cause, not for applause. Live life to express and not for impress. Don’t strive to make your presence noticed, just make your absence felt.”

“The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you finally achieve it.”

“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as an escape.” -Bell Hooks

“Focus on what you can do, not what you can’t. Small steps turn into miles.”

“The harder you try to forget something, the more you think about it unconsciously. Relax, breathe and release.”

“When you fight to cling to people who are no longer meant to be in your life, you delay your destiny. Let them go. “-Mandy Hale

“Always look at the good things in life and never dwell on the negative. If you keep your head down, you’ll miss the blessings.”

“Society promotes overnight delivery, express checkout lines, 24-hour customer service, instant rebates, instant messaging, and instant coffee. We are constantly encouraged to expect what we want, how we want it, and to have it right away. We are conditioned to move more quickly, multitask, speed-read, and drive-through, and although it sounds productive, it leaves no room in our lives to learn patience, tolerance, listening, or conscious breathing. Make time. Make room. You’ll thank yourself later – I promise.”

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. -Johnny Cash

“When life gives you something that makes you feel afraid, that’s when life gives you a chance to be brave.”

“Tomorrow is a new beginning. Embrace the light of a new day, for you have a fresh chance to begin again, to make life beautiful.” -Leon Brown

“When people walk away from you, let them go. You shouldn’t have to talk them into staying with you, loving you, calling you, caring about you, and coming to see you, because if they really cared about you in the first place; they would not be going anywhere.”

“Hurt people hurt people. That’s how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future.” -Yehuda Berg

“Sometimes we simply need someone who will be there for us. Someone who will sit there and listen. Be that person for others when you can.”

If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault. -ER

“Some people will have to learn how to appreciate you by losing you.”

“One of the most freeing things we learn in life is that we don’t like everyone, everyone doesn’t like us, and that’s okay.”

“When the wrong people leave your life, the right things start happening.”

“Sometimes, we give so much that we end up losing ourselves.”

“Stop beating yourself up! You are a work in progress, which means you get there a little at a time, not all at once.”

“Be real, be yourself, be unique, be true, be honest, be humble, and be happy.”

Every woman deserves a man who loves and respects her and every man deserves a woman who appreciates his efforts.

“In one split second everything can change. Be ready.”

“My life isn’t perfect, but it does have perfect moments.”

“I want to feel my life. I want to stop agreeing to things I don’t really want.”

“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”

“Instead of wishing you were someone else, be proud of who you are. You never know who was looking at you wishing they were you.”

“You cannot travel back in time to fix your mistakes, but you can learn from them and forgive yourself for not knowing better.” -Leon Brown

“Believe in yourself even when no one else does. If someone tells you that you can’t do it, prove them wrong.”

“Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems.” -Leon Brown

“There is no need to drag yourself through life, let go of the struggle & give yourself the time & love to find balance.” -Leon Brown

“No matter how much you care about someone, sometimes it’s just not meant to be.”

“A woman is not written in braille, you don’t have to touch her to know her.”

“You are worthy of love and respect. You are beautiful, gifted, and intelligent. Don’t let the storm make you forget it.” -T. Davis

“I really wondered why people were always doing what they didn’t like doing. It seemed like life was a sort of narrowing tunnel. Right when you were born, the tunnel was huge. You could be anything. Then, like, the absolute second after you were born, the tunnel narrowed down to about half that size. You were a boy, and already it was certain you wouldn’t be a mother and it was likely you wouldn’t become a manicurist or a kindergarten teacher. Then you started to grow up and everything you did closed the tunnel in some more. You broke your arm climbing a tree and you ruled out being a baseball pitcher. You failed everyday math test you ever took and you canceled any hope of ever being a scientist. Like that. On and on through the years until you were stuck. You’d become a baker or a librarian or a bartender. Or an accountant. And there you were. I figured that on the day you died, the tunnel would be so narrow, you’d have squeezed yourself in with so many choices, that you just got squashed.” -Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I’m Home

People hate you for 1 of 3 reasons. 1) They hate themselves 2) They want to be you 3) They see you as a threat When you love yourself you are incapable of hating anyone no matter what they’ve done. -Tony Gaskins

“When you truly love someone, you don’t judge them by their past. You leave it there. Just be happy that their future is with you.”

“Problems are like washing machines. They twist, spin & knock us around..but in the end we come out cleaner, brighter and better.”

“Whoever is trying to bring you down is already below you.”

“Whatever you’re going through, just know that many others have experienced the same and gotten out of it just fine.”

“Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.”

“Remember you are a different person now than before, you are wiser & stronger for the trials that you have been through.” -Leon Brown

“There is always a lesson to be learned. Don’t let your pride get in the way of learning it.”

Understand that not everything is meant to be understood. Live, let go, and don’t worry about what you can’t change.

“Look into your own heart; discover what it is that gives you pain. And then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.” -Karen Armstrong

“Stop letting others influence your decisions. Make your own choices and stand by them, you will always be better off.”

“You can’t force people to stay in your life. Staying is a choice, so be thankful for people who choose you.”

“Sometimes we just get disappointed in our loved ones because we expect so much from them. Not because we’re demanding, but because we know we would do those exact same things for them. A lot of men and women would rather stay single because they’re tired of giving their everything and ending up with nothing.”

“Sometimes it’s better to have nobody at all, than to have someone that is only there for you half the time.”

“Breakups hurt, but losing someone who doesn’t respect and appreciate you is actually a gain, not a loss.”

“Sometimes you miss the memories, not the person.”

“The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. In every challenge encountered there is opportunity for growth.”

“When life gives you every reason to be negative, think of all the reasons to be positive. There’s always someone who has it worse.”

“By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.” -Edwin Elliot

“You should never have to convince someone into loving you and waiting to be with you. You deserve to see someone who can easily see what’s special in you.”

“When someone hurts or betrays you, it’s okay to get mad. You’re human. But then release the anger & move on.” -Mandy Hale

“You are responsible for your own happiness. If you expect others to make you happy, chances are you’ll always end up disappointed.”

“I beg you…to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer…” -Rainer Maria Rilke – Letters to a Young Poet

“It is okay to be at a place of struggle. Struggle is just another word for growth. Even the most evolved beings find themselves in a place of struggle now and then. In fact, struggle is a sure sign to them that they are expanding; it is their indication of real and important progress. The only one who doesn’t struggle is the one who doesn’t grow. So if you are struggling right now, see it as a terrific sign — celebrate your struggle.” -Neale Donald Walsch

“If you want to change something about yourself, whether it is your hair color, your makeup, or your nose, I support you. If you do not, then I support you in that. I urge you to do exactly what you want to do to make yourself feel beautiful. And I’m not talking about beauty according to magazine standards or Hollywood standards, but your standards. Look it’s your life, why should other people dictate how you look? Why should their opinions make you feel negatively about your appearance? If you want to eat that cookie, do it, it isn’t hurting anyone else, but it is making you happy. If you don’t want to shave your armpits, don’t. You only have the single life, living it according to someone elses’ standards would be a terrible waste of it.”

“You can let hate, animosity and anger eat away at you, or you can let it go and begin again.” -Leon Brown

“If you surround yourself with positive people who build you up, the sky is the limit.” -Joel Brown

“Hope for the moment. There are times when it is hard to believe in the future, when we are temporarily just not brave enough. When this happens, concentrate on the present. Cultivate le petit bonheur (the little happiness) until courage returns. Look forward to the beauty of the next moment, the next hour, the promise of a good meal, sleep, a book, a movie, the likelihood that tonight the stars will shine and tomorrow the sun will shine. Sink roots into the present until the strength grows to think about tomorrow.” -AW

“When people walk away from you, let them go. You shouldn’t have to talk them into staying with you, loving you, calling you, caring about you, and coming to see you, because if they really cared about you in the first place; they would not be going anywhere.”

“Don’t rush it. When it’s right, you’ll know. If it’s supposed to happen, it will.”

“Never settle for less than you deserve. Standards are a good thing because they keep out added negativity that you don’t need.”

“Instead of wishing you were someone else, be proud of who you are. You never know who was looking at you wishing they were you.”

“Miracles happen to those that believe, if you believe in something with all your heart & mind, you bring it to life.”

“TODAY will never come again. Be a blessing. Be a friend. Encourage someone. Take time to care. Let your words heals, and not wound.”

“Sometimes it’s better to look at where you’re going, instead of where you’ve been.”

“If you give up, it means you never really wanted it.”

“Right now I want a word that describes the feeling that you get — a cold sick feeling, deep down inside — when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don’t want it to, but you can’t stop it. And you know, for the first time, for the very first time, that there will now be a before and an after, a was and a will be. And that you will never again quite be the same person you were.” -Jennifer Donnelly

“The only thing harder than walking away, is not looking back.”

“Your destiny is too great, your assignment too important, your time too valuable. Don’t let fear intimidate you.” -Joel Osteen

“Every day you must unlearn the ways that hold you back. You must rid yourself of negativity, so you can learn to fly.” -Leon Brown

“Every second you spend with the wrong person, is a second wasted in the search for true love.” -Leon Brown

“Sometimes in life we just need someone who will be there for us. Someone who will listen. Someone who will understand.”

“When life changes to be harder, change yourself to be stronger.”

“Sometimes you need to be alone, in order to find out who you really are and what you really want out of life.”

“Life is about trusting your feelings, taking chances, finding happiness, learning from the past, and realizing everything changes.”

“Before you see the rainbow, you see the rain. If you want to reach your goals, you have to be able to put up with the pain.”

“Explain your anger, don’t express it, and you will immediately open the door to solutions instead of arguments.”

“Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.”

“The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.” -The Lion King

“Put your best effort towards your best opportunities, not your biggest problems.”

“If it’s challenging you, testing you, and pushing you.. then it’s helping you become more of who you’re meant to be.” -Mandy Hale

“No matter what you may be going through there is always someone going through worse. Be grateful for your life abd look at the positives.”

“Never forget yesterday, but always live for today. Because you never know what tomorrow can bring, or what it can take away.”

“It doesn’t matter what you’ve done, what matters is what you choose to do from here.”

“Replace those thoughts of worry with thoughts of hope, faith, and victory.” -Joel Osteen

“I fall, I rise. I make mistakes. I live, I learn. I’ve been hurt, but I’m alive. I’m human, I am not perfect, but I’m thankful.”

“Everything passes. There is great beauty in this, both in the passing of pain and in the passing of pleasure. When things present themselves to you as permanent, don’t believe it.” -Guy Finley

“The mind creates the abyss, and the heart crosses it.” -Sri Nisargadatta

“Do not educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy. So when they grow up, they’ll know the value of things, not the price.”

“Once you make the decision to move on, don’t look back. Your destiny will never be found in the rearview mirror.” -Mandy Hale

“A great attitude becomes a great day which becomes a great month which becomes a great year which becomes a great LIFE.” -Mandy Hale

“There is no one “right” way to grow…see what is beautiful in every person’s path, in every religion, and in every belief system. Honor other people’s paths even if they are different from yours. Be inclusive and loving, and look beyond the form of people’s beliefs to their essence. There is no right way; there is only the way that is right for you.” -Sanaya Roman

“Someone asked me if I was a motivational speaker now. I don’t believe in motivation. Motivation is you in this moment getting pumped about a future moment. That is great, if your goal is to get something done. What I am about is truth. From my experience, our default setting is that we are unlimited. Our natural resting state is to evolve and expand. Our challenge is getting through the old conditioning and belief systems that stop us. I am not about positivity, I am about the truth. When someone says “I can’t do this because of x.” I think, wow, you believe a lie about yourself. That is actually not true! That is something your parents taught you. Your parents were also taught that lie. We were taught a lot of lies; “You can’t do that.” or “It’s not that easy.” or even the idea that you need money to be happy. From my experience, not from shit that I have heard other people say, Your happiness is your natural resting state. We take on too many things that don’t matter at all and make no room for things that would cause us to expand and live from our core. When you let go of all these things that you have held onto, (the past and the future, your old story, addictions, people pleasing etc) You make the freedom for real insight to enter your mind. This insight can’t get through all day because you are worried about a football team, or what your ex thinks of you. YOU ARE INFINITE! (Your belief system has trained you to see that truth as hokey but you actually are). Someone asked me how I can “Maintain” this. I don’t maintain it. It is the freaking truth. Once NEO experienced the Matrix, he didn’t have to maintain believing it. He just was aware that was the truth and moved differently from that understanding. So no, I am not a “motivational speaker”, I am just calling out the lies. Once you see through the bull shit you can move faster than any “Motivation” will ever get you. But that is just your natural state. It isn’t hard work at all. It’s effortless allowing and internal focus.” -Kyle Cease

You don’t need to waste your time on someone who only wants you around when it fits their needs.

Never forget yesterday, but always live for today. Because you never know what tomorrow can bring, or what it can take away.

“When you fill your own life with happiness and meaning, you stop looking to other people to complete you.” -Mandy Hale

“Our job is to get out of the way of ourselves and let the art flow through us. We need to stop trying, stop doing, start allowing. We have no clue what we can be when you stop forcing and start being.” -Kyle Cease

“Sometimes it takes losing everything you have to finally grow and find yourself.”

“Giving up doesn’t mean you’re a quitter, it just means whatever you’re fighting for is no longer worth the fight.”

“Dwelling on past bad decisions you’ve made only allows those decisions to keep defining you. Forgive yourself and move on.” -Mandy Hale

“I didn’t change… I just woke up.”

“Enjoy the good moments. Stay positive in the bad. Know that everything will be alright.”

“Sometimes, what we want isn’t what’s best for us.”

“Never settle for anything less than what makes you truly happy.”

“Someday, someone will walk into your life and make you realize why it never worked out with anyone else.”

“The difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter.”

“Be the real thing. Sit back, allow, understand that analyzing is totally an illusion. Show up and stay in the room. Stop stopping. Stop starting over. Understand that when you start, it is going to seem like it isn’t working. That does not mean that it wont work eventually. Stay with it, you will expand. That is what we are here to do. Expand. Just allow yourself to grow. You don’t need to cut corners to get something. If you show up, allow yourself to go through the growing pains, and stay with it, everything you want will happen. Everything you want. Get to that place where your focus is on your expansion, not on getting anything from others. People don’t realize that they are in a bad addictive habit of trying to get things to be happy. They want to manipulate to be happy. When they can’t get what they want, they rely on temporary coping mechanisms. But it’s when you FACE IT head on, you expand. You see that what you were worried about is not real. Once you see it isn’t real, it’s like the Matrix. You can’t ever go back. Why would you? You become incredible. You become something you could not see. This is why analyzing can be total bull shit. It can be useful at times, but if you think to yourself, I am going to work out, however I have tried it before and it is hard. Analyzing just lied to you. It wont be hard after a couple weeks, but analyzing can’t see that next dimension. Analyzing is telling you how things will go from your limited temporary perception. But when you face that illusion head on, you will expand and have a different vision of yourself. YOU DON’T NEED ANYTHING TO BE HAPPY. If you think you do, that tells you the illusional limit to who you think you are. You are limited to a space that says “I need that one person to like me.” “I need that one job.” Bull shit, you are unlimited and if you face that head on, you will see that what was stopping you was not real. You are unlimited. Period. The second you say “Yeah right.” You analyzed yourself out of this possibility. You looked at how you were in the past and found an excuse to not start. What a nice coping mechanism. Get it yet? Start, stay in the room. Let analyzing happen, but don’t believe it. It is just a collection of thoughts from the past that aren’t true. Just stay in the room and you will see that you have a different dimension to you.” -Kyle Cease

“Fear and faith have something in common. They both ask us to believe in something we cannot see.” -Joel Osteen

By hanging on to old negative thoughts and emotions you are only harming yourself and attracting even more negative energy.

“By hanging on to old negative thoughts and emotions you are only harming yourself and attracting even more negative energy.”

“The beauty of life is, while we can’t undo what is done, we can see it, understand it, learn from it and change.”

“Life is too ironic. It takes sadness to know what happiness is, noise to appreciate silence, and absence to value presence.”

“If you give up now, you’ll regret it forever.”

“Until you are broken, you don’t know what you’re made of. Being broken gives you the ability to build yourself all over again, but this time around build yourself stronger than ever. Therefore you will be unbreakable.”

How many on their deathbeds wished they’d spent more time at the office – or watching TV? The answer is, No one. -Stephen Covey

“When you choose to forgive those who have hurt you, you take away their power.”

“Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows? Maybe just like that little baby, putting your arm around somebody and letting him or her know that you care can help begin to heal that person’s heart. Maybe you can give a rescuing hug.”

“How will you know if you have made the right decision? It’s when you picked the harder choice yet your heart is at peace.”

“Because your existence in time and space is unique, there are lives that only YOU can touch.” -Harry Palmer

“People always say that when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that’s not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.” -Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

“Once you learn how to be happy, you won’t tolerate being around people who make you feel anything less.”

“Everything that has a beginning has an end, so forget the past, plan for the future, and enjoy the moment.”

“It’s not about having the perfect relationship, it’s about finding someone who matches you and will go through everything without giving up.”

“Pain can change you, but that doesn’t mean it has to be a bad change. Take that pain and turn it into wisdom.”

“Everything you’re currently angry about is stopping you from being happy.”

Today I close the door to my past, open the door to my future, take a deep breath and step through to a new life.

“Stop cheating on your future with your past…it’s over.”

“Never let a few bad days, bad experiences, or bad people cause you to doubt yourself. None of those things define you.” -Mandy Hale

“You will only find the happiness you seek when you drop your negative attitude towards life, embrace life and be happy.” -Leon Brown

Set your mind that no matter what is going on in your life, you will have a good attitude. -Joyce Meyer

“Try not to take things personally. What people say about you is a reflection of them, not you.”

“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.” -Howard Zinn

“They ignore you now, but they’ll need you later.”

“By being yourself, you put something beautiful into the world that was not there before.” -Edwin Elliot

Before you speak, think: Is it necessary? Is it true? Is it kind? Will it hurt anyone? Will it improve on the silence?

“She had just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, when you least expected it. For at that moment, all our fears suddenly surface: the fear of setting off along a road heading who knows where, the fear of a life full of new challenges, the fear of losing forever everything that is familiar.” -Paulo Coelho

“You’ll never know what you’re capable of until you take that first step and go for it.”

“Eliminate everything that doesn’t make you happy and give your attention to the things that do.”

“You don’t ever have to feel guilty about removing toxic people from your life. It doesn’t matter whether someone is a relative, romantic interest, employer, childhood friend, or a new acquaintance — you don’t have to make room for people who cause you pain or make you feel small. It’s one thing if a person owns up to their behavior and makes an effort to change. But if a person disregards your feelings, ignores your boundaries, and continues to treat you in a harmful way, they need to go.” -Daniell Koepke

“Pick your battles. You don’t have to show up to every argument you’re invited to.” -Mandy Hale

“Beauty is about living your life and being happy with yourself inside and out and not worrying about what people think of you.”

“He who can turn negative situations into something positive, has learned the law of transformation, his mind empowers life.” -Leon Brown

“Unless you heal the root of a problem, the pain will not go away. You can hide from it, but the problem stays until you dig deep.” -Leon Brown

“The key to happiness is letting each situation be what it is instead of what you think it SHOULD be. In love or life.” -Mandy Hale

“Today I am going to let my burdens go. I am going to face this day and have faith that everything will get better.”

“Allow yourself to hope, to believe, to trust again. Don’t let a few bad memories stop you from having a good life!” -Mandy Hale

“Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.”

“Beauty shouldn’t be about changing yourself to achieve an ideal or be more socially acceptable. Real beauty, the interesting, truly pleasing kind, is about honoring the beauty within you and without you. It’s about knowing that someone else’s definition of pretty has no hold over you. When you know that, your self esteem does improve, no surgery or botox or cosmetics required.” -GP

“It is your attitude at the beginning of a task that determines success or failure.”

“When I look back on my life, I see pain, mistakes and heart ache. When I look in the mirror, I see strength, learned lessons and pride in myself.”

“Do me a favor… Stand up, walk to wherever the nearest window is, and just look outside. You may not know this, but there’s an entire planets-worth of summers, friends, sunsets, street lamps, songs, late nights, great films, and night skies waiting for you. Your life is as amazing as you want it to be, but first, you have to let it be that way.” -Chad Sugg

“Too many people mistook envy for happiness. They believed other people wanting to do the things they were doing was more important than doing the things they wanted to do. So they’d edit their photographs and edit their lives and edit and lie until from a distance, it looked like they had the perfect life. But life isn’t something that should be edited. Life shouldn’t be cut. The only way you’ll ever discover what it truly means to be alive and human is by sharing the full experience of what it means to be human and each blemish and freckle that comes with it.” -Iain Thomas

“I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds…” -Jack Kerouac

“We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.” -Anthony Hopkins

“You cannot expect miracles to happen overnight, be patient, be loving and little by little the change you seek will come.” -Leon Brown

“The past can hurt. Don’t waste your time thinking about what you can’t change.”

“You can work on your dreams or you can work for someone to help build theirs. The choice is yours.”

“At any given moment you have the power to say: this is not how my story is going to end.”

“The less you respond to rude, critical, argumentative people…the more peaceful your life will become.” -Mandy Hale

“Be selective in your battles, sometimes peace is better than being right.”

Sometimes when things are falling apart, they may actually be falling into place.

Two of the hardest tests in life: The patience to wait for the right moment and the courage to accept whatever you encounter. -Paulo Coelho

“Don’t wait. Life goes faster than you think.”

Try not to fall for someone who isn’t willing to catch you. If someone really loves and wants to see you, they’ll find a reason, a way, and they’ll make the effort.

“Leave people to their opinions and judgements. They cannot harm you; it is their understanding that is faulty, not yours.” -Leon Brown

“When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.”

“If life were easy, we would be bored. That’s why we are faced with challenges everyday, so that we can work to make ourselves happy.”

“That’s simple,” says the old man. “They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people’s ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.” -Paulo Coelho

People who are meant to be together, will always find their way in the end.

Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.

“If you don’t have trust, you don’t have anything.” -Michael Hunter

“Taking the easy road through life only brings you to a quicker end to it.”

“Focus on your blessings, not your misfortunes. Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses. Relax and let life come to you, don’t force it.”

“Rejection is a part of life. Learn to deal with it and keep it moving.”

“Focus on your blessings, not your misfortunes. Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses. Relax and let life come to you, don’t force it.”

“Be wise and do the right thing. Don’t let irrelevant people waste your time. Your time is valuable and should be spent with valuable people.”

“Nothing is ever wrong. We learn from every step we take. Whatever you did today was the way it was meant to be. Be proud of you.”

“Prove yourself to yourself not others”

“I am done with the past, the future has plenty of room for change.”

“When I let go of what’s not meant to be, I clear a path for good stuff to find me!”

“We will find out what we need to do when we quit lying to ourselves and see the situation for what it is.”

“The most beautiful people are the ones who went through the toughest situations in life but still somehow manage to keep a smile on their face.”

“Chasing the wrong things can make you lose a good thing.” -Charlie Kaufman

“Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won’t be afraid of it anymore.” -Marilyn Manson

“To become better at anything in life, you must be prepared to stretch your comfort zone.”

A bad attitude can literally block love, blessings, & destiny from finding you. Don’t be the reason you don’t succeed. -Mandy Hale

“Love is the most beautiful thing to have, hardest thing to earn and most painful thing to lose.”

“You can’t wait for a good life to come. You have to make one.”

“Sometimes a break from your routine is the very thing you need.”

“Never assume that every critic is a hater. Not everyone is hating on you. Some people are telling you the truth.”

“The wrong relationships teach you how to recognize the RIGHT one when it arrives. -Mandy Hale

“It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make your happiness a priority. It’s necessary. -Mandy Hale

“Be honest about who you are, flaws and all. You never know who you are inspiring by simply being YOU!” -Mandy Hale

“Timing is everything. The things you are praying for will show up when you are most ready for them.” -Mandy Hale

“Sometimes people don’t notice the things we do for them until we stop doing it.”

“You can search high & low to find happiness on earth, yet unless you love yourself, you will never find your true belonging.” -Leon Brown

“If I’ve learned anything from life, it’s that sometimes, the darkest times can bring us to the brightest places. I’ve learned that the most toxic people can teach us the most important lessons; that our most painful struggles can grant us the most necessary growth; and that the most heartbreaking losses of friendship and love can make room for the most wonderful people. I’ve learned that what seems like a curse in the moment can actually be a blessing, and that what seems like the end of the road is actually just the discovery that we are meant to travel down a different path. I’ve learned that no matter how difficult things seem, there is always hope. And I’ve learned that no matter how powerless we feel or how horrible things seem, we can’t give up. We have to keep going. Even when it’s scary, even when all of our strength seems gone, we have to keep picking ourselves back up and moving forward, because whatever we’re battling in the moment, it will pass, and we will make it through. We’ve made it this far. We can make it through whatever comes next.”

“Be ready to overcome your present situation and you will move on to a newer and better situation. Your attitude determines where you go.”

Get your hopes up. Raise your expectations. Your best days are still in front of you. -Joel Osteen

“Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year’s time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.” —Andre Maurois

“Some of life’s best lessons are learned at the worst times.” -Blake Atkins

“Because it´s only when you’re tested that you truly discover who you are. And it´s only when you’re tested that you discover who you can be. The person that you want to be does exist, somewhere in the other side of hard work and faith, and belief and beyond the heartache and fear of what life has.”

“Most relationships fail because we’re too busy pointing out each others mistakes and not enough time enjoying each others company.”

Let go of the old, take hold of the new and believe that 2013 will be your best year yet! -Joel Osteen

Never be afraid to reinvent. A new year gives you permission to be whoever you wanna be. -Mandy Hale

“When it’s yours, love it. One day it might not be yours, so value and appreciate it while it’s still yours.”

“If you have problems with your body, you go to a gym and you work out. If you have problems with your mind, you go see a shrink. But if you have problems with your soul, there’s really nowhere to go but music.”

“If life was easy, we would be bored, that’s why we are faced with challenges everyday, so that we can work to make ourselves happy.”

“First know yourself, then you will begin to understand why things are as they are, and why life is as it is.” -Leon Brown

Doubt sees the obstacles. Faith sees the way. Doubt sees the darkest night. Faith sees the day. Doubt dreads to take a step. Faith soars high. Doubt questions “Who believes?” Faith answers “I”

In most cases, negative comments from others are their own fears or insecurity being projected onto you. If you allow them to, these doubts will seep in and throw you off your path. It is important to have positivity around you during this time. Only share your dream with people that you know will support your endeavors. -Allison Maslan

“If you are going to be courageous, an example for all those who are ready to step into their power, then you must be willing to show the world all of who you are. You must have the guts to throw off the chains of modesty and mediocrity in order to be the light that the world needs.” -Debbie Ford

“Never trust anyone that doesn’t smoke pot or listen to Bob Dylan…Never trust anyone who doesn’t like the beach. And never, ever, EVER, trust ANYONE who says they don’t like dogs. You meet someone who doesn’t like dogs, you alert the authorities immediately and you sure as SHIT don’t marry them.”

You have 2 choices in life. Cave into pressure, stay stuck and allow life to continually overwhelm you. Or step out into the big unknown world, face your fears and aim for a life with purpose. -Allison Maslan

“Take your chances or watch someone take them from you.”

“Life only becomes a battle when you take everything personal. Stand back from the conflicts & you will see clearly.” -LB

“Rejection is a part of life. Just learn to deal with it and keep it moving.”

“If you listen to your soul you will know what is “best” for you, because what is best for you is what is true for you.” -Neale Donald Walsch

“If you don’t pay attention to the past, you’ll never understand the future. It’s all linked together.” -Sarah Dessen

Be yourself and don’t wait for approval.

“The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.” -Sarah Dessen

“I think you deserve more than what you’ve settled for. I think you deserve to be taken care of for a change.”

“Don’t be afraid of change, because it is leading you to a new beginning.” -Joyce Meyers

“Surround yourself with people who know your worth. You don’t need too many people to be happy, just a few REAL ones who can appreciate you for who you are.”

“The best things in life are free. And it is important never to lose sight of that. So look around you. Wherever you see friendship, loyalty, laughter, and love…there is your treasure.” -Neale Donald Walsch

“If nothing goes right, just go left.”

“If you’re feeling frightened about what comes next… Don’t. Embrace the uncertainty. Allow it to lead you places. Be brave as it challenges you to exercise both your heart and your mind as you create your own path towards happiness. Don’t waste time with regret. Spin wildly into your next action. Enjoy the present – each moment as it comes – because you’ll never get another one quite like it. And if you should ever look up and find yourself lost, simply take a breath and start over. Retrace your steps and go back to the purest place in your heart, where your hope lives. You’ll find your way again.” -Julia Brown

“Never compare your journey with others. Your path is unique. Own it and make the best out of it.”

“There is no point in being around people who make you unhappy.”

“Be strong, you never know who you are inspiring.”

“The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.” -C. JoyBell C.

“Never waste your feelings on someone who doesn’t value them.”

“Great things will happen when you get up, dust yourself off, and go after life with determination and courage.”

“Physical beauty and ugliness is not very important. The real thing is the inner. I can teach you how to be beautiful from within, and that is real beauty. Once it is there, your physical form won’t matter much. Your eyes will start shining with joy; your face will have a gleam, a glory. The form will become immaterial. When something starts flowing from within you, some grace, then the outer form is just put aside.” -Osho

You’re not a kid anymore. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It’s simple. It’s your right. -Haruki Murakami

“I can choose to let it define me, confine me, refine me, outshine me, or I can choose to move on and leave it behind me.”

“If the past is not resolved, future relationships will suffer. Let your heart heal, before you open the door to another.” -Leon Brown

“When the day is over, let it go. Don’t dwell on what you could’ve or should’ve done. Tomorrow is another day and another chance.” -Mandy Hale

Just because something hasn’t worked out for you now, doesn’t mean there is not something big in store for you in the future.

“Never place your happiness in someone else’s hands because if they walk away, so does your happiness.” -Robert Tew

“Life is too short to worry about stupid things. Have fun. Fall in love. Regret nothing, and don’t let people bring you down.”

“You can’t have worry in your life if you plan on having inner happiness. Subtract the worry and live in faith.”

You are good at something, stop lying to yourself. You’re good at breaking down comic book plots, cooking ramen perfectly, making your friends happy, knowing the time without looking at a clock, getting the perfect ending at RPG’s, or figuring out the twist ending to movies. Don’t let society tell you your talents are meaningless because they don’t serve an economical purpose. Your talents reflect your interests and passions, and what’s important to you is important.

“Don’t be embarrassed by who you are. They’re going to judge you no matter what you do.”

“We spend too much time thinking and not enough time doing.”

“I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.” -Maya Angelou

“Love doesn’t hurt you. A person that doesn’t know how to love hurts you. Don’t get it twisted.” -TG

“It’s hard to leave- until you leave. Then it’s the easiest goddamned thing in the world.” -John Green

Nothing has turned out as we expected! It never does. Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it’s no worse than it is. -Gone With the Wind

“Things only get as bad as you are willing to let them.”

“Go with the flow. Force nothing. Let it happen, or not happen..trusting that whichever way it goes, it’s for the best.” -Mandy Hale

“I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.” -Robin Williams

“Silence is pure, it draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other, can sit without speaking.”

“Do it from the heart or not at all.” -Jeanette Winterson

“Don’t rush for things. If something is bound to happen, it will happen. In the right time, with the right person and for the best reason.”

“I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.” -Audrey Hepburn

“When you’re about to say goodbye, think twice, look back, and remember how hard it was to say hello.”

“Letting go of the past is your first step to happiness.”

“The best way to be happy is to turn the negatives into positives. Be thankful for what you have, and don’t let anyone steal your joy.”

There’s no reason to look back when you have so much to look forward to.

This life is what you make it. No matter what, you’re going to mess up sometimes, it’s a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you’re going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends – they’ll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything – they’re your true best friends. Don’t let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they’ll come and go too. And babe, I hate to say it, most of them – actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can’t give up because if you give up, you’ll never find your soul mate. You’ll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don’t, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life’s a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about. -Marilyn Monroe

“Saying nothing…sometimes says the most.” -Emily Dickenson

I have realized that your troubles don’t seem so bad if you just stop talking about them all the time.

“If you don’t have trust, you don’t have anything.” -Michael Hunter

“She who knows herself is never disturbed by what others think about her, and he who knows himself is never disturbed by what others think about him. Just be the best version of you there is, and try to do that again tomorrow.”

“I think every man should learn the true definition of what romance is. It’s how you stimulate her mind. It’s through real conversation and showing her how original you are. Intelligence is sexy. It has nothing to do with sex.”

“Embrace struggle… It is your greatest teacher.” -Russell Simmons

“Stop trying to point out the flaws of others and focus on correcting your own.”

“Don’t compare your struggles to anyone else’s. Don’t get discouraged by the success of others. Make your own path and never give up.”

“People tend to be generous when sharing their nonsense, fear, and ignorance. And while they seem quite eager to feed you their negativity, please remember that sometimes the diet we need to be on is an emotional one. Be cautious with what you feed your mind and soul. Fuel yourself with positivity and let that fuel propel you into positive action.” -SM

“You can’t go through life striking out at people who hurt or scare you. All that does is show them that you’re weak. It tells them that they’ve wounded you, and a strong woman never shows her wounds unless it serves a purpose.” -LC

“Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with.” -WA

“Don’t give up too soon. Some people want to weaken you so they can control you.”

“Being different is always going be a tough climb. There’s always going be people that are scared of it. But at the end of the day, never give those bullies, those people that are so ignorant, the power to affect you. If you give that power to them, you’re letting them win. And they don’t deserve that. What you’re doing by being yourself is you’re keeping it real, and you’re being really brave.”

“Keep in mind that many people gave up hope of ever seeing themselves rich or happy, it’s actually quite common. The real courage is in living, striving and persevering for what you believe.”

“If you truly love someone, you should be more interested in keeping them happy than in being right.”

“Argue? For what? Do not continue the battle. One may think they have won because you chose silence. But the true winner is the one with peace in their heart.”

“When you allow what someone says or does to upset you, you’re allowing them to control you.” -Joel Osteen

“Slow down. Calm down. Don’t worry. Don’t hurry. Trust the process.”

Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you’re doing here. Believe in kissing. -Eve Ensler

“Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping … waiting … and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir … open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us … guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love … the clarity of hatred … the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we’d know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we’d be truly dead.” -Joss Whedon

“The best way to get rid of the pain is to feel the pain. And when you feel the pain and go beyond it, you’ll see there’s a very intense love that is wanting to awaken itself.” -Deepak Chopra

“Nobody looks good in their darkest hours. But it’s those hours that make us what we are.”

“A true friend accepts who you are, but also helps you become who you should.”

“Refuse to let small, petty people distract you from your BIG PURPOSE!”

“Your past does not determine who you are. Your past prepares you for who you are to become.” -Joel Osteen

“Never place your happiness in someone else’s hands because if they walk away, so does your happiness.” -Robert Tew

“You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.” -Maya Angelou

“I think people make mistakes and they’re going to disappoint you, especially the people who love you most. And if you can’t forgive them for not being perfect, you’re going to end up alone.”

“When we judge, it’s difficult to understand. When we assume, it’s easier to be disappointed. When we try harder, it’s easier to succeed.”

“Pay attention to the people that help you when you’re low, so you know who to ignore when you’re at your high.”

If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place. -Nora Roberts

No matter what happens, no matter how far you seem to be away from where you want to be, never stop believing that you will somehow make it. Have a unrelenting belief that things will work out, that the long road has a purpose, that the things that you desire may not happen today, but they will happen. Persist and persevere, your desired path remains possible. -Brad Gast

“Don’t try to change people. It won’t work, and they will end up resenting you. Only God can change people!” -Joyce Meyer

“Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don’t be afraid to take that first step.”

“If you want to change something about yourself, whether it is your hair color, your makeup, or your nose, I support you. If you do not, then I support you in that. I urge you to do exactly what you want to do to make yourself feel beautiful. And I’m not talking about beauty according to magazine standards or Hollywood standards, but your standards. Look it’s your life, why should other people dictate how you look? Why should their opinions make you feel negatively about your appearance? If you want to eat that cookie, do it, it isn’t hurting anyone else, but it is making you happy. If you don’t want to shave your armpits, don’t. You only have the single life, living it according to someone elses’ standards would be a terrible waste of it.”

“People NEVER remember the million times you’ve helped them, only the ONE TIME you don’t.”

“Life is short. Do more of what makes you happy.”

“There is no point in wishing things can be different. We cannot change the past. We can only accept the change and move forward.”

“If you can’t control what you think, you will not be able to control what you do.” -Joyce Meyer

“You have to be fearless and take chances. Don’t live life fearing what comes next. That’s not what living is about.”

“We often just accept the things that we like, and complain a lot about the things that we don’t like. But if we could, like, intensely dwell on the really great things in life the way we intensely dwell on the negative things in life; I think that would be fantastic.” -Hank Green

“Don’t be someone’s downtime, spare time, part time or sometime. If they can’t be there for you all of the time, then they’re not even worth your time.” -unknown

“The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory.”

“Never, ever, ever give up! Chances are if you FEEL like giving up, you’re right on the edge of your breakthrough.” -Mandy Hale

“This is not the time to shrink back in fear. Move forward in faith. Get up every morning knowing you are gifted.” -Joel Osteen

“Somebody died last night, but we didn’t. Somebody didn’t wake up this morning, but we did. We’re not lucky, we are blessed!”

“When someone does something wrong, don’t forget all the things they did right.”

If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself. -Barbara de Angelis

“Never give up. Always find a reason to keep trying.”

“You may not have gone where you intended to go but you will end up where you need to be.” -Douglas Adams

“Insecure people have to make excuses and put others down to feel confident. Confidence isn’t walking into a room with your nose in the air, and thinking you’re better than everyone else, it’s walking into a room and not having to compare yourself to anyone in the first place.”

“Don’t wish for it, work for it.”

“Don’t look back or you’ll trip over what’s in front of you.”

“And then one student said that happiness is what happens when you go to bed on the hottest night of the summer, a night so hot you can’t even wear a tee-shirt and you sleep on top of the sheets instead of under them, although try to sleep is probably more accurate. And then at some point late, late, late at night, say just a bit before dawn, the heat finally breaks and the night turns into cool and when you briefly wake up, you notice that you’re almost chilly, and in your groggy, half-consciousness, you reach over and pull the sheet around you and just that flimsy sheet makes it warm enough and you drift back off into a deep sleep. And it’s that reaching, that gesture, that reflex we have to pull what’s warm – whether it’s something or someone – toward us, that feeling we get when we do that, that feeling of being sad in the world and ready for sleep, that’s happiness.”

“Don’t let your character change color with your environment. Find out who you are and let it stay it’s true color.” -Rachel Scott

“Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there’s a tomorrow. Maybe for you there’s one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it. But for some of us there’s only today. And the truth is, you never really know.” -Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver

“Life is a daily cleansing. Negativity must be washed away, if you wish to attract positive experiences to your life.” -Leon Brown

“Life does not always give you what you want, but if you look closely you will see that it gives what you need for growth.” -Leon Brown

“If you tell yourself something often enough you will start to believe it, that is why you must make self love your mantra.” -Leon Brown

“Every time you subtract negative from your life, you make room for more positive.”

“We think about tomorrow when today hasn’t even finished yet. We plan our future like we’re sure we will have one; we don’t live day by day. Yes, we might stand up everyday and fall onto our bed after school, but we never really stop to notice what is around us. We live like life is something regular, but it isn’t. Too often we forget how fragile it is; how we can die any minute. What if I wake up tomorrow and I forget to even notice how lucky I am? People die in their sleep sometimes. I walk downstairs and I could have fallen to my death there. I eat my bread with no worries on how I could choke and, yes, maybe die. I will run to catch my bus. It will be a regular day; which means I will survive. Once surviving is no longer regular everyday, you have to start fighting for every tomorrow. What I’m trying to say is that you can die everyday; maybe of a heart attack, or get hit by a car, or maybe about a thousand other possibilities. Humans die every second. Who gives you the assurance you’re not one of them today? Tomorrow? Next week? I don’t want you to wake up everyday and be happy and enjoy the day, because we can’t. I don’t try and tell you to appreciate it more, and to tell yourself this everyday. I want you to stop sometimes, and look at what is around you, and be thankful for your existence. We want to wake up and enjoy the day like it’s our last, but we’re only humans. We forget. You could try to remind yourself, but that will only work for a few days. Maybe writing it on a piece of paper and sticking it on your wall will remind you more often. Tattoo it, then you could remember it for a few months; but, with time we forget. It gets usual. You don’t look at that paper on your wall the same. You don’t notice it anymore. You don’t read your tattoo anymore because it became only black ink on your wrists. No, we can’t appreciate our existence everyday, but we can sometimes stop and look around. Inhale the atmosphere because we never know if we are inhaling it for the last time. My biggest fear is that one day I will be laying on the ground bleeding, knowing I’m going to die. I will die with thousands of words that should have been said, with hugs that I gave daily, but now the unattainable wish of just having one more hug; no longer possible because that person isn’t here and you’re going to be away forever. I don’t want to die full of regrets, with things running in my head of what I should have done different; where I just would have been a bit less stubborn, or how I’ve never told the girl how I really felt, or maybe how I will miss the summer light that filters through the leaves of the trees. The simple things will become the most precious ones. We will, and that is makes life so precious… never knowing when your journey ends. All we can do is stop sometimes and inhale what is around us, and hope we learn to appreciate it enough.”

“It doesn’t matter how you get knocked down in life, because that’s going to happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up.” -Ben Affleck

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”

“All relationships are important because they reveal the true nature of the relationship we have with ourselves.” -Robert Tew

“It’s funny. Your muscles have a certain memory about them. That’s why we can tie our shoes or play piano without looking. But then you spend a long enough time with someone and your bodies memorize each other, you know? The warmth of your back, the pace of your heartbeat, your tickly eyelashes, and the way your fingers would curl in sequence when I used to play with your palm. Another person is like moving to a new country where you don’t know the language, it’s a scary thing.” -To Claire; From Sonny

“Find the one you can be yourself around, you can say whatever you want, you can laugh, you can smile, you can scream, you can hug, you can kiss, you can fight and make up at the very end of the night but you’re still absolutely crazy about each other.”

“Remember how far you’ve come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.” -Rick Warren

“They say one day our life will flash before our eyes. Make it worth watching.”

“Whatever happened to chivalry? Does it only exist in 80’s movies? I want John Cusack holding a boombox outside my window. I wanna ride off on a lawnmower with Patrick Dempsey. I want Jake from Sixteen Candles waiting outside the church for me. I want Judd Nelson thrusting his fist into the air because he knows he got me. Just once I want my life to be like an 80’s movie.” -Easy A

“Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don’t think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn’t stop you from doing anything at all.” -Richard P. Feynman

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A crowded United Airlines flight was canceled. A single agent was re-booking a long line of inconvenienced travelers.

Suddenly, an angry passenger pushed his way to the desk. He slapped his ticket on the counter and said, “I HAVE to be on this flight and it has to be FIRST CLASS.”

The agent replied, “I’m sorry, sir. I’ll be happy to try to help you, but I’ve got to help these folks first; and then I’m sure we’ll be able to work something out.”

The passenger was unimpressed. He asked loudly, so that the passengers behind him could hear, “DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHO I AM?”

Without hesitating, the agent smiled and grabbed her public address microphone. “May I have your attention, please?”, she began, her voice heard clearly throughout the terminal. “We have a passenger here at Gate 14 WHO DOES NOT KNOW WHO HE IS. If anyone can help him with his identity, please come to Gate 14”.

With the folks behind him in line laughing hysterically, the man glared at the United Airlines agent, gritted his teeth, and said, “F*** You!”

Without flinching, she smiled and said, “I’m sorry sir, you’ll have to get in line for that, too.”
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“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.” -Richard P. Feynman

“Create a life that feels good on the inside, not one that just looks good on the outside.”

“There is one statement I want you to keep after you are finished with this book. It is more of a mantra, really. Nonetheless, let it crawl across your mind any time you feel you have been backed into a corner spiritually. It is very simple: Live your life, no matter what life is. Take that with you. Live your life. No matter what that life is.” -Corey Taylor, Seven Deadly Sins

“You don’t need bigger boobs. You Need to read better books.”

“People always think that when you sleep together, there’s always something that is happening in between the sheets and the bed. But let me tell you, It’s not always like that. The feeling of actually hugging each other until you fall asleep, the warmth of each other’s breath, and the total happiness in the morning when you wake up right beside him. Everything may sound too good to be true, but sometimes it takes a lot of responsibility and love to be able to be as wholesome as possible. Sleeping with your special someone is one of the most heartwarming experiences you’ll ever have. No nothing, simply hugging and smiling yourself to sleep.”

“Being strong sometimes means being able to let go.”

“You are where you are, at the time that you are, for a reason. Don’t waste it by wishing to be somewhere else.” -Mandy Hale

“Have the maturity to know sometimes silence is more powerful than having the last word.” -Thema Davis

“Always be true to your feelings because the more you deny what you feel, the stronger it becomes.”

“Forgiveness is freeing up and putting to better use the energy once consumed by holding grudges, harboring resentments, and nursing unhealed wounds. It is rediscovering the strengths we always had and relocating our limitless capacity to understand and accept other people and ourselves.” -Sidney and Suzanne Simon

“There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I’m going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.” -Elizabeth Gilbert

“How boring would Super Mario Brothers have been if the goal of the game was for Mario to just complain about each bad guy and not do anything. If Mario just sat on the couch and bitched about how crappy his parents were, the game would be terrible. If Mario then decided to not start moving forward, but instead decided to seek therapy and find out why