“Don't ask yourself what the world needs - ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
— Harold Thurman
“I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect, because that’s natural and that’s real.”
— Marc Jacobs
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
— Neal Donald Walsch
“Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth,"You owe me." Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.”
— Hafiz of Shiraz
“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
-— Maya Angelou
“When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation, or accept it. All else is madness.”
-— Eckhart Tolle
“Real intelligence is a creative use of knowledge, not merely an accumulation of facts. The slow thinker who can finally come up with an idea of his own is more important to the world than a walking encyclopedia who hasn’t learned how to use this information productively.”
— Susan Winebrenner
“Don’t wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.”
— Jim Rohn
“Some people will never ‘get you’. Do not spend eternity asking why. People will see you differently, just cherish those who lift your soul.”
— Dodinsky’s Garden of Thoughts
“I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let people fool themselves. They didn’t bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn’t argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn’t.”
— Marilyn Monroe
“Please know that there are much better things in life than being lonely or liked or bitter or mean or self conscious. We are all full of shit. Go love someone just because, I know your heart may be badly bruised, or even the victim of numerous knifings but it will always heal even if you don’t want it to, it keeps going. There are the most fantastic, beautiful things and people out there, I promise. It’s up to you to find them.”
— Chuck Palahniuk
“You are not useless. You are not hopeless. And no matter how scared you are, you will never be alone. And deep down, somewhere, in the part of you that decided the good days and your happiness and your health were all worth fighting for, you know that, too. Hold onto that knowledge. It will see you through the worst.”
— Ella Ceron
