Growing up I always love words. I loved the different meanings that could be created from the infinite combinations of a meager twenty six letters. I had an entire wall of cut, colored paper with quotes written on them. I guess you could say I collect them. Listed below are a few of my favorites that I have collected over the years. These words, along with many other things, are what have helped shape who I am today. I revisit them often enough to remind myself of the meaning enshrouded in them, and thereby the meaning I have found in them for myself. Each hold an intriguing thought. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.
- “Let passion devour laziness.” – Christopher Poindexter
- “Our greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” – William James
- “The moment you feel like you have to prove your worth to someone is the moment to absolutely and utterly walk away.” – Alysia Harris
- “How we spend our days, is of course, how we spend our lives.” – Annie Dillard
- “Whenever you procrastinate, you’re just being a dick to your future self.” – Tim Canfield
- “‘No’ might make them angry. But. It will make you free. – if no one has ever told you, your freedom is more important than their anger.”
- “It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now.” – Hugh Laurie
- “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live only as you can.”
- “Your worst battle is between what you know and what you feel.”
- “Hearts are wild creatures, that’s why our ribs are cages.”
- “The greatest gift you can give someone is your time. Because when you give your time. You are giving a portion of your life that you will never get back.”
- “Nobody made a greater mistake than the one who did nothing because he could only do a little.”
- “There are no short cuts to any place worth going.”
- “Why? Because some people are just terrible human beings, and terrible people do terrible things. If you’re racking your brain trying to understand it, it just means you’re not one of those terrible people.”
- “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” – Earl Nightingale
- “Just remember, even your worst days only have twenty-four hours.”
- “Your past is just a story. And once you realize this, it has no power over you.”
- “I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.”
- “I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.” – Rita Mae Brown
- “Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.” – Wayne Dyer
- “You’re a diamond, dear. They can’t break you.”
- “Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it’s the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’”
- “If you’re not going to speak up, how is the world supposed to know you exist?”
- “It’s better to know and be disappointed than to never know and always wonder.”
- “The fact that someone else loves you doesn’t rescue you from the project of loving yourself.” - Sahaj Kohli
- “What you allow is what will continue.”
- “Smile, and let the world wonder why.”
- “Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.” – C. S. Lewis
- “Did you ever realize how much your body loves you? It’s always trying to keep you alive. It’s making sure you breathe while you sleep, stops cuts from bleeding, fixes broken bones, finds ways to beat the illnesses that might harm you. Your body literally loves you so much. It’s time you start loving it back.”
- “But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.” – Junot Diaz
- “Close some doors. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they no longer lead somewhere.”
- “The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.” – Stephanie Perkins
- “A secret to happiness is letting every situation be what it is, instead of what you think it should be.”
- “I don’t think people understand that you can forgive a person and not allow them back into your life. That is possible, very possible.”
- “I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.” – John Steinbeck
- “If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.” – Seth Godin
- “Sometimes the easiest way to solve a problem is to stop participating in the problem.” – Jonathan Mead
- “Let them sleep while you grind. Let them party while you work. The difference will show.”
- “Everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something.”
- “Think of why you started.”
- “The person who does not require validation from anyone is the most feared individual on the planet.” – Mohadesa Najumi
- “When you throw dirt, you lose ground.”
- “No reason to stay is a good reason to go.”
- “If you talk about it, you still care about it.”
- “You aren't fat. You have fat. Fat does not define you.”
- “Recovery is ignoring the need to be perfect.”
- “Be a nice human.”
- “Crying has never been an indicator that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.”
- “My dear, you've missed so many opportunities to say nothing.”
