“Accepting oneself does not prelude an attempt to become better.”
— Flannery O'Connor
“My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.”
— Opis Mandelstam
“You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“The older I get, the more I want to be authentically myself.”
— Julianne Moore
“Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
— Gautama Buddha
“Love is a tenacious adventure.”
— Alain Badiou
“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on Earth.”
— Louise Erdrich
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”
— Martin Buber
“I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.”
— Anne Frank
“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”
— Suzy Kassem
“Neither love nor terror makes on blind: indifference makes one blind.”
— James Baldwin
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
— Squire Bill Widener
“The virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another’s. We see so much only as we possess.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.”
— Jack Kerouac
“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
— Warren Buffett
“There’s no such thing in anyone’s life as an unimportant day.”
— Alexander Woollcott
“You never know when your detour will lead to your destiny.”
— Upworthy
“Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.”
— Bill Watterson
“Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations.”
— Mae Jemison
“My goal is not to be better than anyone else, but to be better than I used to be.”
— Wayne Dyer
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”
— Amelia Earhart
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly despairing, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
— Agatha Christie
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”
— Meister Eckhart
“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. ”
— Emily Dickinson
“In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.”
— Matt Morris
“It is never too late to be who you might have been. ”
— George Eliot
“We’re all building our world, right now, in real time. Let’s build it better.”
— Lindy West
“It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak, and another to hear.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Life is not designed to hand us success or satisfaction, but rather to present us with challenges that make us grow.”
— Terry Laughlin
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps, hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”
— Maya Angelou
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
— Alice Walker
“Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and start being excited about what could go right.”
“Someday, everything will make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, and keep reminding yourself that everything happens for a reason.”
“One child, one teacher, one pen, and one book can change the world.”
— Malala Yousafzai
“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.”
— H. G. Wells
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. ”
— Helen Keller
“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.”
— Charles M. Schulz
“It’s a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”