Who I Am

If you asked me for my New Year's resolution, it would be to find out who I am. -Cyril Cusack

To The Old, To The Young

To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure. -Ben Jonson

Young At Heart

Don't you know that it's worth every treasure on earth / To be young at heart. -Carolyn Leigh

Separation

For those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation. -Rumi

Someone Else

What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else. -Stephanie Klein

Special Person

I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way. -Andrew Boyd

The Energy

The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today? -Mary Manin Morrissey

Disrespect

You don't have to disrespect and insult others to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is. -Red Haircrow

Dream And Support

I want to be around people that dream and support and do things. -Amy Poehler

Be The One

Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart, the one who looks for the best in people. -Marvin J. Ashton

Redeeming Quality

Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that. -Jeannette Walls

Too Many People

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like. -Will Rogers

In The Company Of Others

When in the company of others, even my nearest and dearest, there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book. -Maureen Corrigan

Nobody's Watching

You are who you are when nobody's watching. -Stephen Fry

Let Things Go

You will find it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. -C. JoyBell C.

Choosing

Life is choosing whom and what you love. Everything else follows. -Todd Johnson

Your Future

Don’t judge your future based on others’ mistakes. -Rachel Vincent

Same Old

If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person? -Joe Abercrombie

Practice

Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it. -Ann Brashares

Act

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. -Thomas Jefferson

One

One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world. -Malala Yousafzai

Mood

MANAGE YOUR MOOD: Name 1 thing that surprised you today. Name 1 thing that moved you. Name 1 thing that inspired you. -Gino Norris

My Thanks

I'd like to express my thanks - I've got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night. -Irving Berlin

Gratitude

Gratitude is the key to opening all doors. -Lailah Gifty Akita

Inner Strength

I found an inner strength to fight for myself. It was clear that nobody else would. -Tehmina Durrani

Thought And Action

The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous. -Richard M. Nixon

Erase

Sometimes I wish life was written in pencil so we could erase it and write it all over again. -Thisuri Wanniarachchi

Getting Lost

Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost. -Erol Ozan

Haters

Don't doubt yourself, that's what haters are for. -Turcois Ominek

Our Thoughts

We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking. -Santosh Kalwar

The Life You Have

The life you have - right here, right now - is the one you have chosen. There is power in that, and hope. -Emily Maguire

Hallucination

Vision without execution is just hallucination. -Henry Ford

Doubt

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will. -Suzy Kassem

Simple And Unassuming

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind. -Albert Einstein

Rediscover

There is something remarkable about each one of us. Seize the opportunity to look within and rediscover yourself. -Roopleen

Only A Step

Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success. -Og Mandino

Let The Rain Come

Let the rain come then if it must come! And let it wash away the dust that hurt my eyes! -Jocelyn Soriano

You Be You

You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow. -Jerry Spinelli

Better Things

Sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can fall together. -Jessica Howell

A Lie

A lie told often enough becomes the truth. -Vladimir Ilich Lenin

One Answer

At what point do you give up - decide enough is enough? There is only one answer really. Never. -Tabitha Suzuma

Trust

Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart and trust your story. -Neil Gaiman

As A Friend

It's sometimes easier to help others rather than helping yourself. The trick is to listen to your "self" as a friend. -Lorii Myers

Try Not

No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try. -Yoda

Always Light

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds. -Louisa May Alcott

Tired

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. -Friedrich Nietzsche

Wisest

Wisest is she who knows she does not know. -Jostein Gaarder

A Tender Look

Love is an act of endless forgiveness; a tender look which becomes a habit. -Peter Ustinov

Turn The Page

There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it. -Shannon L. Alder

What To Do

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. George S. Patton Jr.

To Handle

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. -Eleanor Roosevelt

Watching

You can observe a lot just by watching. -Yogi Berra

Observe

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. -Marilyn Vos Savant

Blaming Fate

Instead of blaming fate, we should accept ourselves as we are and try to fulfill whatever dreams are within our capability. -Michio Kaku

Surprise

So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence -- a surprise. -Vera Nazarian

Equal

And, in the end, The love you take, is equal to the love you make. -Paul McCartney

Knock Knock

Knock Knock... Who's There?.. Little endorphin... Little endorphin who?... Little Endorphin Annie. Ellen DeGeneres

Be True

To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. -William Shakespeare

As It Is

It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. -Ann Druyan

Legacy

The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy. -Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

Souls

He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. -Emily Brontë

Better Than We Are

When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too. -Paulo Coelho

What You Hope For

The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. -Barbara Kingsolver

Possibilities and Challenges

Recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment and embrace them with courage, faith and hope. -Thomas Merton

Emote

Emote. It's okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling. -Ellen DeGeneres

Climbing

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it. -Andy Rooney

The Small Things

The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count. -Jennifer Niven

The Sun

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away. -Elvis Presley

The Ride

Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile. -Shannon L. Alder

Dress

You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them. -Satchel Paige

Stars

Look at the stars. See their beauty. And in that beauty, see yourself. -Draya Mooney

A Test

It’s strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what’s real and what’s imaginary. -Jason Mraz

What You Need

I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect. -Lisa Kleypas

Difficulty

The merit of all things lies in their difficulty. -Alexandre Dumas

Choose

We don't get to choose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it. -Kami Garcia

Power

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -Abraham Lincoln

Delicious Autumn

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it. If I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. -George Eliot

A Bore

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything. -Voltaire

Two Or Three Feet

You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is among the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard. -Anne Lamott

Rationality

The willingness to change one’s mind in the light of new evidence is a sign of rationality not weakness. -Stuart Sutherland

Trust And Equality

Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too. -Sophie Kinsella

The Sharpest Criticism

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses. -Johannes Kepler

When It Works

You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs. -Sarah Dessen

How Much?

How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em. -Shel Silverstein

Careful

There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt. -Maya Angelou

Outward Together

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Want, Need

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. -Vernon Howard

Comfort Zone

Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone. -Shannon L. Alder

Parking Spaces

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces. -Will Rogers

Cherish Learning

For every child we teach to cherish learning, a universe is born. -D. Simone

Purpose

Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live. -Criss Jami

Faithful

Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth. -Dorothy Day

Off And Away

Congratulations! Today is your day. You're off to Great Places! You're off and away! -Dr. Seuss

Like Diamonds

True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style. -Nicole Richie

Inessentials

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials. -Bruce Lee

Out There

There’s a whole world out there, right outside your window. You’d be a fool to miss it. -Charlotte Eriksson

Peace

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. -John Lennon

I Have Learned

This I think I have learned: where there is love, the form does not matter, and the gods are pleased. -Moondance k'Treva

Connectedness

I do believe in an everyday sort of magic - the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places and people. -Charles de Lint

Ancestors

Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands. -Linda Hogan

Embrace

We must widen our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. -Albert Einstein

Conscience

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience. -Harper Lee

Letting Go

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. -Thích Nhất Hạnh

A Little Scared

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right. -Sarah Addison Allen

Essence

The energy of the mind is the essence of life. -Aristotle

Hold On

Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? -Marilyn Monroe

Kinds of Love

If it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts. -Leo Tolstoy

Blame

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. -Erica Jong

Get Out There

Get out there! Sing the song in your heart and NEVER let anyone shut you up! -Steve Maraboli

Choose

Choose to let go. Choose dignity. Choose to forgive yourself. Choose to forgive others. Choose to see your value. -Shannon L. Alder

The Heart

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not. -Blaise Pascal

Dreams

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had. -Alice Sebold

Nothing

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him. -Cher

Pigs

Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig. -Robert A. Heinlein (or possibly Mark Twain)

Lies

The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves. -V.S. Naipaul

Information

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. -Gertrude Stein

The Internet

The internet is just a world passing notes around a classroom. -Jon Stewart

Belief

Belief is the wound that knowledge heals. -Ursula K. Le Guin

Purifying

Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind. -Amit Ray

Solitary Fantasy

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities. -Maya Angelou

Prayer

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. -Søren Kierkegaard

Fearless

FEARLESS is having the courage to say goodbye to someone who only hurts you, even if you can’t breathe without them. -Taylor Swift

Little Candle

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world. -William Shakespeare

Made And Remade

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. -Ursula K. Le Guin

Expect

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. -Michael Jordan

Melt

Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt. -Susan Sontag

Speed

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed. -Mahatma Gandhi

Butterfly

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. -Maya Angelou

Touched

I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched. -Edgar Allan Poe

Believe

You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true. -Veronica Roth

An Opinion

An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it. -Jef Mallett

Rebellious Bird

Love is a rebellious bird that nobody can tame. -Veronica Rossi

The Sun

The sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps. -John Lennon

On Faith

Taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take you on faith too. It’s such a precarious balance. -Libba Bray

Fooled

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. -Søren Kierkegaard

Complete Emotions

We don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. -Virginia Woolf

The Along

Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along. -Gwendolyn Brooks

Eyes Closed

People should fall in love with their eyes closed. -Andy Warhol

Enjoy

I'm going to enjoy every second, and I'm going to know I'm enjoying it while I'm enjoying it. -Jean Webster

The Courage

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing. -Ernest Hemingway

Every Moment

Dance. Smile. Giggle. Marvel. TRUST. HOPE. LOVE. WISH. BELIEVE. Most of all, enjoy every moment of the journey. -Mandy Hale

Blessings

The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. -Seneca

A Fire

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. -Joan Crawford

Within

Once you understand how powerful you are within, you exponentially increase the power of everything outside of you. -Steve Maraboli

Unstoppable

If it weren’t for physics and law enforcement, I’d be unstoppable. -Darynda Jones

Results

Forget about style; worry about results. -Bobby Orr

Weekend

Cozy + smell of pancakes - alarm clock = weekend. -Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Small Doses

Avoid death in small doses, remind oneself being alive requires an effort far greater than the simple fact of breathing. -Martha Medeiros

Sense of Humor

A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. -Clive James

The Night

I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. -Sarah Williams

Cavalry Charge

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse. -Adlai E. Stevenson II

Fairy Tales

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten. -Neil Gaiman

Right

If you're not right for yourself, it's impossible to be right for anyone. -Rachel Machacek

Whatever, Whoever

You better starve, than eat whatever / And better be alone, than with whoever. -Omar Khayyám

Simple Magic

He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase? -Gillian Flynn

Someday

Someday we'll find it / The rainbow connection / The lovers, the dreamers and me. -Kermit (Paul Williams, Kenny Ascher)

I Will

I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story, I will. -Amy Schumer

Change

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. -George Bernard Shaw

Liberty

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take. -Emma Goldman

Love Much

Whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done. -Vincent van Gogh

Be Kind

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. -Wendy Mass

You Fly

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly. -Neil Gaiman

Always Change

No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change. -Madonna

Play

You can't stop the future. You can't rewind the past. The only way to learn the secret...is to press play. -Jay Asher

Happiness

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind. -Daphne du Maurier

A Crowd

The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it. -Terry Pratchett

Distinguished

The women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex. -Mary Wollstonecraft

Clever

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. -Oscar Wilde

Curious

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. -Marie Curie

Unheard

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter. -John Keats

Enduring

What we do for love: those things endure. Even if the people you do them for don't. -Cassandra Clare

Baseball

Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand. -Leo Durocher

Your Heart

The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote. -Sarah Dessen

Vacation

In matters of healing the body or the mind, vacation is a true genius! -Mehmet Murat ildan

Giving

It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving. -Mother Teresa

Unhappiness

Avoiding unhappiness is not the road to happiness. -François Lelord

One Moment To The Next

That is life, isn’t it? Fate. Luck. Chance. A long series of what-if’s that lead from one moment to the next. -Kelseyleigh Reber

A Thousand Words

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. -Henrik Ibsen

Real Self

Be sure it's your real self you're showing. Because it is your real self that needs to be loved. -Daphne Rose Kingma

Search For Knowledge

Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. -Daniel Keyes

Change It

If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. -Maya Angelou

Possible

Only if you are possible, everything will be possible. -Santosh Kalwar

Like Me

It's not your job to like me - it's mine. -Byron Katie

Greatest Version

The best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves. -Steve Maraboli

Balance

My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada. -Ellen DeGeneres

A Single Heart

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. -Mahatma Gandhi

Whimsical

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life. -Mary Oliver

Love

Love is the absence of judgment. -Dalai Lama XIV

When someone tells me "no," it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them. -Karen E. Quinones Miller

Middle of the Night

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. -Saul Bellow

Years

There are years that ask questions and years that answer. -Zora Neale Hurston

Delusion And Truth

Why do you so earnestly seek the truth in distant places? Look for delusion and truth in the bottom of your own heart. -Ryokan

A Test

Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you’re alive, it isn’t. -Lauren Bacall

Lives And Music

Some people have lives; some people have music. -John Green

Like Rain

Love is like rain, like the smell of a tangerine, like a surprise found in your pocket. -Deb Caletti

The True Soldier

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him. -G.K. Chesterton

Dance

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion. -Martha Graham

More Fun

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?" -A.A. Milne

Trust And Love

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel. -Doris Lessing

Greatly

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. -Robert F. Kennedy

Right To Grow

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. -Alice Walker

Enough Time

But there never seems to be enough time, to do the things you want to do, once you find them. -Jim Croce

Footprints

Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the same. -Flavia Weedn

Peanut Butter

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -Charles M. Schulz

A Boat

A boat is always safe in the harbor, but that's not what boats are built for. -Katie Couric

Intimacy

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them. -Alain de Botton

A Year From Now

A year from now you may wish you had started today. -Karen Lamb

Communal

We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience. -Michael Ondaatje

In Your Mind

You can be more in love with someone in your mind than with the person you see every day. -Jean Kwok

Don't Judge

I don't judge people. It blurs out the center of my attention, my focus, myself. -Toba Beta

The Source of Passion

Love is...The fury of the storm, The calm in the rainbow. Love is the source of passion. -Susan Polis Schutz

To Comfort and Disturb

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. -Banksy

Fountain of Youth

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of others. -Sophia Loren

Reality

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick

Other Than Oneself

Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. -Iris Murdoch

Your Future

The best way to predict your future is to create it. -Peter F. Drucker

The Silent One

The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them. -Karen Marie Moning

Then You Read

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. -James Baldwin

Happy Cinco de Mayo

I’m not above using obscure Mexican battles to justify my drinking. -unknown

Best Wishes

Keep your best wishes close to your heart and watch what happens. -Tony DeLiso

Change

All that you touch, you change. All that you change, changes you. The only lasting truth is change. -Octavia E. Butler

The Truth

The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth. -Lao Tzu

Cattle

The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way. -Janet Fitch

The Ones Who Do

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. -Apple Inc.

Part of Beauty

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. -P.C. Cast

Clouds

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. -Rabindranath Tagore

Moving On

Moving on is easy. It's staying moved on that's trickier. -Katerina Stoykova Klemer

About People

You know what I like most about people? Pets. -Jarod Kintz

After Changes

After changes upon changes / We are more or less the same / After changes we are / More or less the same -Paul Simon

Wasting Time

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. -Marthe Troly-Curtin

The Soul

The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts. -Marcus Aurelius

Making Space

Choosing happiness over suffering, I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises. -Elizabeth Gilbert

History

If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. -Michael Crichton

Being Human

There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human - being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time. -C. JoyBell C.

Smile

I've got nothing to do today but smile. -Paul Simon

The Little Things

Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things. -Ann Brashares

Promise Yourself

Promise yourself to live in faith that the world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you. -Christian D. Larson

Inconvenient

Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them. -Margaret Mitchell

Things

The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything. -Chuck Palahniuk

Free

The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything. -Chuck Palahniuk

Single

Single is no longer a lack of options, but a choice. A choice to refuse to let your life be defined by your relationship status. -Mandy Hale

Decide

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. -Napoléon Bonaparte

Understood

...to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase? -Gillian Flynn

Conversation

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation. -Oscar Wilde

Daydreaming

A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination. -Richelle E. Goodrich

Walking

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking. -Friedrich Nietzsche

A Universe

You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind. -Yoko Ono

Unapologetically You

Imagine going through your day being unapologetically you. -Steve Maraboli

Wounds

Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn't, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay. -Emma Forrest

Children

Children see magic because they look for it. -Christopher Moore

Often

I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad. -Anne Brontë

No Equal

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent. -Mahatma Gandhi

Soar

I'm going to run as fast as I can, fly as high as I can, I am going to soar and if you want you can come with me! -C. JoyBell C.

Involve Me

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn. -Benjamin Franklin

If You Need

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you. -Sue Monk Kidd

Those Who Dance

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music. -George Carlin

Music

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. -Maya Angelou

Forgive

Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspective. Forgetting loses the lesson. -Paulo Coelho

Living A Life

Instructions for living a life: Pay attention, be astonished, tell about it. -Mary Oliver

Pause and Reflect

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -Mark Twain

Uprooting

Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you can begin again, with pure joy in the uprooting. -Judith Minty

Deeper Meaning

It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning. -Vincent van Gogh

Heart, Mind and Spirit

May my heart be kind, my mind fierce, and my spirit brave. -Kate Forsyth

Something Incredible

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. -Carl Sagan

Women

There are women who change the world every day...women like you. -Ashley Rice

Death

Death ends a life, not a relationship. -Mitch Albom

Dignity

Dignity: when you live your dreams, not because of what it will prove or get you, but because that is all you want to do. -Shannon L. Alder

Faithless

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. -J.R.R. Tolkien

Adapt and Change

Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular. -Lisa Lutz

Stop Worrying

How would life be different if you stopped worrying about things you can’t control and started focusing on things you can? -Steve Maraboli

Loving Someone

Loving someone is giving them the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to. -Julianne Moore

My Wife

My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met. -Rodney Dangerfield

Contemplate

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. -Rachel Carson

To Improve

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. -Winston S. Churchill

A Good Marriage

A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal. -Anne Lamott

Monday

So. Monday. We meet again. -Julio Alexi Genao

Prejudices

Prejudices are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education. -Charlotte Brontë

Knowing

So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it. -Wm. Paul Young

Without A Man

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. -Gloria Steinem

Appeaser

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. -Winston S. Churchill

Kindred Spirits

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world. -L.M. Montgomery

Make Love

And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It's good for you. -Kurt Vonnegut

Running Away

That's what I want without you running away afterward. I want to fall asleep and know there's no place you'd rather be. -Ann Aguirre

Rational Thinking

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking. -Albert Einstein

See Beauty

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. - Franz Kafka

Fear Less

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. -Marie Curie

People Are Beautiful

Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are. -Markus Zusak

Giving Up

Giving up doesn't always mean you're weak, sometimes you're just strong enough to let go. -Taylor Swift

Listening to Trees

Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. -Hermann Hesse

Beautiful Mistakes

What a waste my life would be without all the beautiful mistakes I've made. -Alice Bag

The Best

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble. -Rudyard Kipling

Live Now

Change now. Love now. Live now. Don't wait for people to give you permission to live, because they won't. -Kris Carr

Certain Things

Certain things in life simply have to be experienced - and never explained. Love is such a thing. -Paulo Coelho

Fooled

I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. -Marilyn Monroe

Happiness

Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them. -Steve Maraboli

Strange

Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you. -Frida Kahlo

Principles

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others. -Groucho Marx

Folks

I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks. -Harper Lee

Loving Deeply

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. -Lao Tzu

My Being

With masks down, I walk, talking to the moon, to the neutral impersonal force that does not hear, but merely accepts my being. -Sylvia Plath

Macarena

You have to remember one thing about the will of the people; it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena. -Jon Stewart

Pumpkins

I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. -Willa Cather

Thinking Animal

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal. -John Steinbeck

Intelligence

Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason. -Vivienne Westwood

Peace

Peace is not something you wish for. It is something you make, something you are, something you do, something you give away. -Robert Fulghum

Connection

I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued. -Brené Brown

Zen Masters

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats. -Eckhart Tolle

A Vibrant Woman

A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than one who waits around for a man to validate her existence. -Mandy Hale

Dragons

Never laugh at live dragons. -J.R.R. Tolkien

Three

Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye. -Dorothy Parker

Champions

Champions are built on a thousand invisible mornings. -Kirk Cousins

The Doing

I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less. -Anna Quindlen

Madness

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence. -Edgar Allan Poe

Do Stuff

Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. -Susan Sontag

Better

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better. -Maya Angelou

Change

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. -Albert Einstein

Energy

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. -Eleanor Roosevelt

Connected

We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically. -Neil deGrasse Tyson

Care

Every one of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves. -Diana, Princess of Wales

Books

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. -Oscar Wilde

The Figs

Choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black... -Sylvia Plath

Sail Away

Throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. -H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Perfect

YOU. ARE. PERFECT. You are. Im talking to YOU. and don't you dare think otherwise...embrace the entity of yourself. -Kaiden Blake

Alive

Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else. -E.E. Cummings

You Survived

Don't deny the difficult events of your life, but the fact that you survived is also a wonderful story to tell. -Golda Poretsky

The Meadow

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Facts

It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires. -Hilary Mantel

Assumptions

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in. -Isaac Asimov

Here And Now

If I must start somewhere, right here and now is the best place imaginable. -Richelle E. Goodrich

In Between

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between. -Norton Juster

Want

Life has a funny way of testing you to see if you really want what you say you want. -Turcois Ominek

The Power To Choose

Even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from we can still choose where we go from there. -Stephen Chbosky

Eat A Waffle

You should eat a waffle! You can't be sad if you eat a waffle! -Lauren Myracle

Don't Criticize

Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes. -Elvis Presley

Lemons

When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye. -Cathy Guisewite

The Fire

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. Be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. -Albert Schweitzer

Your Time

Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can't accept who you are. -Turcois Ominek

Open Up

Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart. -Jim Henson

Lessons

There are lessons in loss, power in love. We have within us the potential for beauty so magnificent our bodies can't contain it. -Amy Harmon

Start Living

It's time to start living the life you've imagined. -Henry James

The Unhappiest People

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

Empty Resolutions

Don’t make empty resolutions about this or that external little thing – make one huge resolution to give yourself to yourself. -Jay Woodman