Take The Power

Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy. -Susan Polis Schutz

Beginnings

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -Dan Wilson, Semisonic

Kissings

The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me? -Percy Bysshe Shelley

Patience

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wild Geese

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese... -Mary Oliver

Letting Go

Letting go means realizing that some people are a part of your history but not a part of your destiny. -Steve Maraboli

Accepting

Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better. -Flannery O'Connor

Lucky Enough

...if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away. -Stephen Hawking

Never Tire

May Goodness inspire your Deepest Desires. Through all that you Reach For, May your arms Never Tire. -D. Simone

Kinder

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight? Always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary. -J. M. Barrie

What Is Important

What is important is not to live in fear. The most dangerous thing is to give up and lose hope. -Queen Rania of Jordan

Grief

"Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you." -John Green

Procrastination

One thing that's good about procrastination is that you always have something planned for tomorrow. -Gladys Bronwyn Stern

I Love You

There are never enough "I love you's." -Lenny Bruce

Choose

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

Apple Tree

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. -Martin Luther

Choices

Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines. -Christine Feehan

Wisdom

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else. -Hermann Hesse

Value

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others. -Simone de Beauvoir

I've Learned

I've learned... That being kind is more important than being right. -H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Bolder

But time makes you bolder, even children get older, and I'm getting older...too. -Stevie Nicks

New Ending

Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning, anyone can start over and make a new ending. -Chico Xavier

Far Greater

Reality might not match your grand thoughts. You might be far greater. -Vera Kasikasi

Join The Dance

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. -Alan W. Watts

Raw

...one must say "I am raw and I am ready just like this right now, how and who I am.” -C. JoyBell C.

Love Something

Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. -Donald Miller

Destiny

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences. -J.K. Rowling

It Matters

It doesn't matter what you did or where you were...it matters where you are and what you're doing. -Steve Maraboli

Monuments

The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments... -R.J. Palacio

Visible

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. -Tony Robbins