Things Will Change

This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change. -Taylor Swift

So Late

How did it get so late so soon? -Dr. Seuss

Reaffirming

Begin reaffirming yourself and others through encouragement, paying attention, listening, and being grateful. -Susan C. Young

Perfect

There's no such thing as perfect. Chasing 'perfect' is the shortest road to not achieving it. -Gary Vaynerchuk

Giggle

Ba ha ha ha! Tsee tsee tsee! Giggle, titter, snicker, crow, laughter makes my 'happy' grow! -Richelle E. Goodrich

Cause Of Happiness

The single greatest cause of happiness is gratitude. -Auliq-Ice

Count The Hugs

Don’t count your dollars to see how rich you are. Count your memories. Count your friends. Count the hugs you get every day. -Toni Sorenson

Blessed Is The Season

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. -Hamilton Wright Mabie

We Are

We are what we are; we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone... not even to ourselves. -Scott Lynch

See Yourself

See yourself as you really are. Accept the good and the bad. Only then can you truly share yourself with another. -Velyn Cooper

Your Purpose

The discovery of your purpose generates the passion and dedication it takes to pursue and fulfill it. -Assegid Habtewold

Here

Now that you find yourself here, what are you going to do? -Malebo Sephodi

Fishing

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. -Henry David Thoreau

Looking For Ideas

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up ’cause they’re looking for ideas. -Paula Poundstone

Choices

Have no regrets in life because of the choices you make. The only regret in life, is to never make a choice at all. -James Hauenstein

Strengths And Growth

The most painful moments and memories eventually lead to the greatest strengths and growth in life. -Kemi Sogunle

The Right Path

I have realized lately that the right path is the one where you feel happy within yourself, at ease within yourself. -Shashi

If You Walked Away

If you walked away from a toxic, negative, abusive, one-sided, dead-end low vibrational relationship or friendship — you won. -Lalah Delia

Other Lanes

Life is offering you infinite paths! To get stuck in one path is nothing but shallowness! Go deep, discover other lanes! -Mehmet Murat ildan

Inspire

Being able to inspire the body is an easy feat, but being able to inspire the soul as well is true talent. -Imania Margria

Sometimes

Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn. -Robert T. Kiyosaki

Make New Ones

Don't be afraid to make mistakes. But if you do, make new ones. Life is too short to make the wrong choice twice. -Joyce Rachelle

Every Moment

When you expect nothing from the world - not the light of the sun, the wet of water, nor the air to breathe - everything is a wonder and every moment a gift. -Michael J. Sullivan

Fresh Peaches

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. -Alice Walker

Mindset

Happiness has to do with your mindset, not with outside circumstance. -Steve Maraboli

A Wonderful Day

This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before. -Maya Angelou

Fundamental Truths

What we call fundamental truths are simply the ones we discover after all the others. -Albert Camus

Things And People

Things don't matter, people do, -Rosie Thomas

The Ugliness

If you can’t find happiness in the ugliness, you’re not going to find it in the beauty either. -Chip Gaines

Bother To Listen

If I bother to listen, I can navigate by failure just as much as I can navigate by success. -Sharon Weil

Earlier Selves

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them. -Roger Zelazny

A Deep Breath

You are where you need to be. Just take a deep breath. -Lana Parrilla

The Fortress

Don't accept a life of mediocrity when you hold such infinite potential within the fortress of your mind. -Robin S. Sharma

Be Alone

When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape. -bell hooks

Success

Success is not in what you have, but who you are. -Bo Bennett

Don't Wait

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

Ripples

The ripples of the kind heart are the highest blessings of the Universe. -Amit Ray

Who You Are

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kind of falls into place. -Jennifer Aniston

Around Me

I cannot change the people around me, but I can change what kind of people are around me. -kambiz shabankareh

The Simple Things

Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world ... -E.A. Bucchianeri

Practice

Everything we do is practice for something greater than where we currently are. -Adam Kirk Smith

That One Person

If you are still searching for that one person who will change your life, take a look in the mirror. -Anonymous

I'll Be Me

So come on let it go; Just let it be; Why don't you be you; And I'll be me... -James Bay

A Depth

There is a depth to life which only comes from our connection to other people. -Donna Goddard

The Right Question

So much of life isn’t about having the right answer; it’s about knowing the right question. -Duane Hewitt

At Peace

To make the right choices, you have to be at peace with yourself. -Tara Estacaan

Listen

Learn when to talk and when to listen. If you're unsure, listen. -J. Kyle McNeal

Mountains And Rivers

You’ve climbed too many mountains and crossed too many rivers to stop and turn back now. -Eleanor Brownn

Pick One

If you cannot forgive and forget, pick one. -Robert Brault

Let It Be

I believe one of the biggest challenges and successes is to let go and let it be. -Brittany Burgunder

Your Heart

Success becomes worthwhile if it fills your heart with happiness and not with stress. -Debasish Mridha

Solutions

All your solutions are in people, and you can only be free when you love them. -Sunday Adelaja

Chaos

A passionate woman is worth the chaos. -Unknown

Everything

Forget the ones who tell you you are not enough and wait for the ones who tell you you are everything. -N.R. Hart

Choose

My father chose my name, and my last name was chosen by my ancestors. That's enough, I myself choose my way. -Ali Shariati

Scenic Routes

There are no such things as failures, they are just detours and scenic routes to remember your successes. -Janna Cachola

It's Time

It's time for you to be the hero of your own journey. -Bill Jensen

Handling Conflict

The key to handling conflict is to make sure people understand it's okay to have an opposing view. -Eunice Parisi-Carew

The Mind

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. -Plutarch

Tip-Toe

Time doesn’t really ‘march on’. It tends to tip-toe. There’s no parade. One day, you turn around and it is gone. -Heather Babcock

The Adult

Don't let life randomly kick you into the adult you don't want to become. -Chris Hadfield

These Mountains

These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb. -Najwa Zebian

The Image

When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do. -RuPaul

Time

Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for Christmas morning. Time can't be given, but it can be shared. -Cecelia Ahern

Go Boldly

Go boldly and honestly through the world. Learn to love the fact that there is nobody else quite like you. -Daniel Radcliffe

Aware

We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change. -Sheryl Sandberg

Move On

Life itself is unfair, so we might as well accept things the way they happen, clean up the mess, and move on. -Jeff Lindsay

Know Exactly

To get what you want, you have to know exactly how much you are willing to give up. -C.S. Pacat

Regrets

I don't do regrets. Regrets are pointless. You've lived your life. No point wishing you could change it. -Lemmy Kilmister

The Best Things

The best things aren't perfectly constructed. They aren't illusions. they aren't larger than life. They are life. -Nina LaCour

The Real Treasure

Stop searching the world for treasure, the real treasure is in yourself. -Pablo

Each Scar

Some people read palms to tell your future, but I read hands to tell your past. Each scar makes a story worth telling. -Sarah Kay

Solution

Instead of complaining about the problem and blaming others, start finding the solution. -Roy T. Bennett

Chronological Order

Sometimes life doesn't happen in chronological order. -Colleen Hoover

Forget Regret

Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other path, no other way, no day but today. -Jonathan Larson

There Is

In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling. -Gertrude Stein

Better Spent

Time spent doing whatever it is you do to escape your daily life would be better spent acquiring a life that needs no escape. -Shaun Hick

Listen

When you've lost sight of your path, listen for the destination in your heart. -Katsura Hoshino

Weird Enough

There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough. -Alain de Botton

Road Trip

The greatest part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff that happens along the way. -Emma Chase

Stronger

As long as you give it enough time, life is stronger than metal and stone, more powerful than typhoons and volcanoes. -Liu Cixin

Escalator

Life is like an escalator. And you might as well enjoy the view and seize every opportunity while you're passing. -Sophie Kinsella

The Right Time

Never refuse to grow, learn and mature, it's your time and it's the right time. -Kabelo Mabona

The Sweetest Melody

Let your very identity be your book. Let the way people say your name sound like the sweetest melody. -Charlotte Eriksson

Be Yourself

I realised that a bad time is less to do with your actions and more to do with people's negative reactions. Be Yourself! -Ramana Pemmaraju

Music

Music is truth in an otherwise dishonest world. -Moryah DeMott

Fiercely

Perhaps we should love ourselves so fiercely that when others see us they know exactly how it should be done. -Rudy Francisco

The Big Happiness

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the hope for the big happiness. -Pearl S. Buck

Puddle

Life's a gloomy puddle...until you start jumping in it. -Curtis Tyrone Jones

The Excursion

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy. -Eudora Welty

Life Is A Train

Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump aboard or stand on the platform and watch as it passes. -Yasmina Khadra

Not Bossy

I'm not bossy. I just happen to be more capable than most everyone else. -Shannon Hale

Expense Of Truth

Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth. -Johann Georg Zimmermann

Uncontrollable Beast

This is how love is. An uncontrollable beast in the form of a flower. -Suzy Kassem

I Am Not You

To completely understand me you must first accept that I am not you. -Ross Caligiuri

Your Art

Make your life be your art and you will never be forgotten. -Charlotte Eriksson

Loving Kindness

Animosity does not eradicate animosity. Only by loving kindness is animosity dissolved. This law is ancient and eternal. -Dhammapada

Stays Forever

A love that doesn't last prepares us for the one that stays forever. -Jennifer J. Hayes

Rain

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. -Rumi

Up To Me

If it is to be, it's up to me. -Melba Moon

Second Spring

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. -Albert Camus

A Little In Love

A man always wants his friends to be a little in love with his beloved too. -Carlene Bauer

Flexible Mind

Wisdom requires a flexible mind. -Dan Carlin

Always

I will know you always, whatever form I wear. I swear it. -Elizabeth A. Lynn

Unique Path

No one is ordinary because every person carries the wisdom of his own unique path! -Mehmet Murat ildan

Clean Socks

A man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks. -Jean Kerr

Hold Everything Tightly

Hold everything in this world lightly. Tight enough to show love, but loose enough to easily let go. -Hayley Solich

Quality Of Life

The quality of my life will depend on whether I choose to appreciate things ‘now’ or wait until ‘then.’ -Craig D. Lounsbrough

Your Calling

Your calling is calling you, are you answering? -Rob Liano

Imperfections

A perfect person is easy to love. But when somebody likes all your imperfections, that's when you know they really mean it. -Michelle Dalton

The Best You

You can't run from who you are. The best you can do is take who are you are and make the best you that you can be. -Bohdi Sanders

Once You Know Me

I know I'm not going to be in your head all the time. But once you know me, I'll be forever in your heart. -Crystal Woods

Ugly Duckling

It's funny how the ugly duckling always has so many beautiful things to teach us. -Curtis Tyrone Jones

In The Mirror

I hope you'll always remember that you need to love the person in the mirror first to make a change. -Temitayo Olami

Experience

Experience is not a means to realize the truth. Experience is the truth. -Marty Rubin

Distance Yourself

Distance yourself from people who: Disrespect you; Mistreat others; Are abusive; Lie to you; Are negative; Use you. -Germany Kent

Complication

Put it this way: if you can't see the complication, you're probably it. -Daniel Handler

Tequila

Stop trying to make everyone happy. You're not tequila. -Emmy Rossum

Inspiring People

Money is not my definition of success; inspiring people is the definition of success. -Kanye West

Good Morning

...good morning, good morning, good morning. Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness. -Mary Oliver

Your Own Sunshine

Sometimes you have to create your own sunshine. -Sam Sundquist

Only In Moments

One learns that complete and unadulterated happiness comes only in moments, and must be savored to the full. -Victoria Holt

The Door

The best secret of success is to always be ready to find and open the door of opportunity. -Debasish Mridha

Potatoes

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them. -Nora Ephron

Where You Are

No matter what you want to do, you still have to start where you are. -R. A. Delmonico

The Secret

The secret to a happy life is simply your attitude. -Gloria Tesch

Waking Up

Anyone can slay a dragon, but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero. -Brian Andreas

Internally Translate

Life is nothing more than what we internally translate it to be. -Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana

Smooth Sea

A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor. -Franklin D. Roosevelt

Boundaries

None of us know the full measure of our power until we start pushing our boundaries and pressing our luck. -Penelope Douglas

Like The Sun

She was like the Sun. At just the right distance, she gave me life, but if I got too close, she would burn me. -E. Leo Foster

Language Of The Heart

There is one language we can all speak and understand from birth, the language of the heart, love. -Imania Margria

So Necessary

It is true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Two Different Places

No matter how bad you want a person, if your hearts are in two different places, you’ll have to pass and move on. -Alexandra Elle

The Results

If you are concentrating on the results of your actions, you are not dedicated to your task. -Ethan Hawke

By-products

Happiness and self-confidence can be the by-products of other things, but they cannot really be goals unto themselves. -Julie Lythcott-Haims

Appreciation

Appreciate the beauty and your ability to appreciate it. Without your appreciation, there is no beauty. -Debasish Mridha

Life

And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -Grandma Moses

Happy, Period

If you are to be happy at all, you must be happy - period! Not happy "because of". -Maxwell Maltz

With Intention

she saw. she grew. she changed. she bled on the pages of her days, she walked through walls, she lived with intention. -Mary Anne Radmacher

Care About Things

Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on yourself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing. -Hank Green

Love In Truth

Love in truth doesn't need any adjectives. It doesn't require modifiers. It doesn't require the condition of perfection. -Courtney A. Walsh

Into The Void

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch. -Jean-Luc Godard

Passing Whisper

Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. -Flavia Weedn

Not Measurable

Young, innocent at any age: only such a mind can see that which is truth and that which is not measurable by words. -Jiddu Krishnamurti

Happy Or Sad

It doesn’t matter whether you are looking for a reason to be happy or sad, you will always find it. -Kamand Kojouri

Accountability

Take accountability, cut out the drama, distance yourself from negativity, and move your life into a healthy direction. -Steve Maraboli

I'm In Love

My heart’s so light it floats and carries me so my feet don’t walk, and that’s how I know I’m in love. -Shannon Hale

Be Relentless

Anyone can choose to have success, but only the patient ones will get rewarded by it. Be relentless in chasing your dreams. -Aaron Lauritsen

Same Thing

We all go through the same things, it's just a different kind of the same thing. -Susan Glaspell

10,000 Ways

I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways it will not work. -Thomas Edison

Your Authentic Self

Don't be afraid of who you're not. Be afraid of never knowing who you are. Defend your authentic self. -Karen Laffey

The Wild Ones

Stories are made about girls like you. The wild ones, those rare faces that smile in the midst of chaos. -Nikki Rowe

Sunbeams

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. -Ronald Dahl

All My Fears

All the failures in my life freed me from all my fears so that I can succeed. -Patience Johnson

Building Bridges

Building bridges is the best defence against ignorance. -Aaron Lauritsen

Lost

I am not yours, not lost in you, Not lost, although I long to be Lost as a candle lit at noon, Lost as a snowflake in the sea. -Sara Teasdale

Two People

If only one person can do it, you cannot do it, if two people can do it, you can do it too. -M.F. Moonzajer

Do Much

The truth is, when you have little to do, you do very little. But when you have much to do, you do much. -Richelle E. Goodrich

Is Love

Love is the same thing whatever shape our souls have taken on this journey. Love is love. Is love. -Clive Barker

Here And Now

Do what ought to be done, here and now, to get you somewhere - anywhere. -Charlotte Eriksson

Redesign

The decision you will take today has the power to redefine your past and redesign your future. -Mayank S. Sengar

Treasured

A woman with romance in her life lives as grandly as a queen, because her heart is treasured. -Nora Roberts

Silence

Silence is the worst part of any fight, because it's made up of all the things we wish we could say, if only we had the guts. -Pete Wentz

Back To Me

I need to work out how to keep things flying back to me instead of always flying away. -Carol Rifka Brunt

A Smile

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. -W.C. Fields

Chop The Onions

True friends chop the onions and cry together. -Ljupka Cvetanova

Is Me

How can anybody say they know how I feel? The only one around here who is me, is me. -Morrissey

The Salesman

The expensive car you bought doesn’t matter, but the way you treated the salesman does. -Sheila M. Burke

Emotion

Intuition goes before you, showing you the way. Emotion follows behind, to let you know when you go astray. -Anthon St. Maarten

Hug

It is better to hug than shake hands. -Lailah Gifty Akita

Different Culture

Most of my important lessons about life have come from recognizing how others from a different culture view things. -Edgar H. Schein

Keep Walking

I stumble. I balance. I keep walking. Because I know that at the end of my journey is my dream destination. -Hema Aushat

Appreciate

If others do not appreciate your work, appreciate your capability of seeing something which is not visible to others. -Ashish Mandlik

Moving Forward

Moving on is not about forgetting. It's about moving forward and never looking back. -Imania Margria

Float

We will not float in weightlessness simply because we have not read the lesson on gravity. -Danail Hristov

Expand Your Mind

You can continue to cry over the same pain & complain about the same situations or you can expand your mind and you can grow. -Nikki Rowe

That Beast Within

I'm willing to grind, endure and suffer to wake that beast within me, to grow, accomplish and win. -Sachin Kumar Puli

The Best Parts

The best parts of life aren’t clear-cut or obvious...they don’t have neat endings. -Anna Breslaw

The Key

People think that success is the key to happiness, what I have learned is it's actually other way around. -Robin Dabhi

Build Bridges

We don't always have to always agree, but we must find common ground, build bridges across our differences for the common good. -Cory Booker

Laugh

You can’t be beaten by something you laugh at. -Jonathan Harnisch

The Harder Path

Being kind, being compassionate, being respectful does not make you weak. More often, it's the harder path to take. -Liza M. Wiemer

Boldness

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it! -John Anster

Try To Love

I suspect the most we can hope for is that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love. -Elizabeth Strout

Don't Judge

We are all different. Don’t judge, understand instead. -Roy T. Bennett

Affection

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it. -Audrey Hepburn

Indifference

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. -Plato

Thorns

Your thorns are the best part of you. -Marianne Moore

More Than What We Are

“Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.” -Lloyd Alexander

Take Chances

Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure, they can be turned into wisdom. -Cat Cora

Awake At Night

Me, lying awake at night: 'Where have I gone wrong?' A voice to me: 'This is going to take more than one night.' -Charles M. Schulz

To Hurt

To hurt is as human as to breathe. -J.K. Rowling

Just Listen

No teacher, preacher, parent, or friend can decide what's right for you. Just listen to the voice that speaks inside. -Shel Silverstein

No Face

When the enemy has no face, society will invent one. -Susan Faludi

Control

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. -Jack Kerouac

Forgotten

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. -Mother Teresa

Within You

When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you. -Paulo Coelho

Single

"She's strong! And scary! I bet she's single...I'd put money on it.” -Masashi Kishimoto

Educating

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. -Aristotle

One Piece

Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one piece. -Judith Viorst

A Brick

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window. -Gilles Deleuze

Insults

The bottom line is, insults only hurt when they come from someone I respect. -Kresley Cole

Empires

All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind. -Winston S. Churchill

Bad At Something

Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. -Sue Monk Kidd

Uncommon

I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be uncommon...if I can. -Dean Alfange

Shadows

Don't be afraid of the shadows, that only means there's a light nearby. -Evanescence

Little Acts

Do what you can. You would be surprised at what "little" acts have done for our world. -Steve Maraboli

The Only You

There will always be better writers than you and there will always be smarter writers than you, but you are the only you. -Neil Gaiman

Every Life

Every life is noted and is cherished, and nothing loved is ever lost or perished. -Madeleine L'Engle

Like Aged Wine

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable. -Leo Buscaglia

Write It Down

If you write it down, you can make it happen. -Staness Jonekos

Kindness

Kindness has no religion. Religions are like narrow tracks but kindness is like an open sky. -Amit Ray

You Teach

You teach people how to treat you. -Oprah Winfrey

Keep Surprising

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience. -Tom Hiddleston

The World Needs You

I hope that you - yes, you - have the ambition to lean in to your career and run the world. Because the world needs you. -Sheryl Sandberg

Judge

When you judge another person, you do not define them. You define yourself as someone who needs to judge others. -Wayne W. Dyer

Inner Goddess

Embrace your inner goddess, never let go of the light you carry within. -Cynthia Dougherty-Bernal

Lifestyle

Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job, not a calling. -Paul Kalanithi

Pile Of Mistakes

Success isn’t a gleaming, shiny mountain. It’s a pile of mistakes that you’re standing on instead of under. -Christy Wright

The World Is Wailing

Arise, my friend - the world is wailing for kindness - it is wailing for compassion - it is wailing for love. -Abhijit Naskar

People Say

If some people say what is in their hearts and other people say what glides easily off the tongue, how can we talk? -Madeleine Thien

Promises

I always think carefully before making any promises because I always keep my word. -Martin Meadows

Taught With Humor

A lesson taught with humor is a lesson retained. -Ruth Westheimer

Absolute Knowledge

Absolute Knowledge is infinity. It’s an impossible concept to comprehend let alone achieve without an infinite amount of time. -Drew Cordell

Do For Yourself

Do for yourself, for no one else will. -Johanna Lindsey

Beer

If beer makes you fat, stop eating. -Old German Saying

All You Can Do

About all you can do in life is be who you are. -Rita Mae Brown

Three Sides

The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story. -Stanley Fish

Dreams

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters. -Henry David Thoreau

Threats

Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary. -Tamora Pierce

So Ignorant

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -Galileo Galilei

Golden Haze

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. -Elinor Glyn

Admit

It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing. -Lemony Snicket

Just Live

Push yourself. Don't Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE. -Jojo Moyes

Free To Change

We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky. -Walter Mosley

Anything Once

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure. -Mae West

Lost

I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost. -A.A. Milne

Truth And Honesty

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful. -Eleanor Roosevelt

The Past

The past beats inside me like a second heart. -John Banville

Genius

It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing. -Gertrude Stein

Imagination

Our imagination flies. We are its shadow on the earth. -Vladimir Nabokov

Sheep From Goats

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats. -Sue Grafton

All The Answers

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions. -Confucius

Next

Sometimes...you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next! -Sophie Kinsella

A Prism

Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass. -Jonathan Kellerman

The Temptation

We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement. -Tami Hoag

Flowers

The earth laughs in flowers. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Like A Kite

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back. -Anaïs Nin

Chaos

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. -Henry Adams

Struggle

There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win. -Sharon Pollock

Laughing

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing. -Herman Melville

Laugh

Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself. -Chelsea Handler

New Eyes

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust

Who We Are

We are who we are, be­cause of those we choose to love and be­cause of those who love us. -Kate Mosse

Acts Of Compassion

The world is saved...in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion. -Chris Abani

If You Don't

If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. -Nora Roberts

Grown-Ups

Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world. -Neil Gaiman

Charm

Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful. -Kathleen Winsor

Sit Awhile

Never be afraid to sit awhile and think. -Lorraine Hansberry

Friendships Of Childhood

There was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. -Alexander McCall Smith

Families

Families are made in the heart. -C. JoyBell C.

Slow Down

Slow down, you move too fast. You got to make the morning last. -Paul Simon

Absolutely Nobody

Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? -Toni Morrison

Hearts That Can Bend

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. -Albert Camus

Notice Me

I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely. -Curtis Sittenfeld

Well Prepared

Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise. -Ingmar Bergman

Question Everything

Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers. -Colleen Hoover

On My Way

I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way. -Carl Sandburg

Words

Words are such unpredictable creatures. No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. -Tahereh Mafi

My Religion

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. -Dalai Lama XIV

Fearless

Allowing yourself to cry on the bathroom floor is fearless. Letting go is fearless. Then, moving on and being alright. -Taylor Swift

This Moment

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. -Omar Khayyám

Twirl

Twirl, even when your mind makes no sense of what you see. Kiss, even when others are watching. -Alysha Speer

Folly

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. -Mark Twain

The Choice

In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did. -Cassandra Clare

A Pessimist

That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be. -James Jones

My Ship

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. -Louisa May Alcott

Good Chance

Never miss a good chance to shut up. -Will Rogers

The Sky

The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet. -Jandy Nelson

Watching The Stars

Here's to the kids whose idea of a good night is sitting on the hood of a car, watching the stars. -Pete Wentz

Down Deep

I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them. -Sylvia Plath

Through

The best way out is always through. -Robert Frost

Positive Dream

Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities. -Adeline Yen Mah

Change

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. -Viktor E. Frankl

Salt Water

I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea. -Karen Blixen

A Question

If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers. -Patrick Rothfuss

Showing Up

That’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore. -Rebecca Walker

Being True

I am not interested in being original. I am interested in being true. -Agostinho da Silva

Mockingbird

...they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird. -Harper Lee

To The Limit

So put me on a highway and show me a sign, And take it to the limit one more time. -Randy Meisner, Eagles

The Past

This is what happens when you try to run from the past. It doesn’t just catch up, it overtakes, blotting out the future. -Sarah Dessen

Simply Yourself

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you. -Lao Tzu

Imagination

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create. -Maria Montessori

Bound

We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future. -David Mitchell

Be Prepared

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it! -Maya Angelou

Had I Told The Sea

Had I told the sea, What I felt for you, It would have left its shores, Its shells, Its fish, And followed me. -Nizar Qabbani

Both At Once

One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once. -Mary Renault

Ignore Things

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. -Robert J. Sawyer

Ghosts

Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them. -Sue Grafton

Passion

Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive? I don't know. -Paulo Coelho

Balance

To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life. -Elizabeth Gilbert

Silence

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. -Chaim Potok

In The Light

Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will. -Mary Stewart

Dreams

Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. -John Updike

Luxury

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are. -Anaïs Nin

Minds

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. -Henry Thomas Buckle

This Hole

This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no one else can fit it. Why would I want them to? -Jeanette Winterson

Never Started

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish. -J.R.R. Tolkien

In Disguise

Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. -Margaret Atwood

A Secure Future

In reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. -Jon Krakauer

The Journey

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. -Ursula K. Le Guin

Your Destiny

Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny. -Gregory Maguire

Wild Places

The mind I love must have wild places. -Katherine Mansfield

Be A Child

I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. -Bob Newhart

Love

Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story. -Daphne du Maurier

Once Upon A Time

We need books, time, and silence. 'Thou shalt not' is soon forgotten, but 'Once upon a time' lasts forever. -Philip Pullman

Insanity

I don't suffer from my insanity. I enjoy every minute of it. -Sherrilyn Kenyon

Look Around

To the men of our century I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. -Leo Tolstoy

Better

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. -Mae West

On The Road

Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road. -Jack Kerouac

End In Sight

A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. -Elizabeth Wurtzel

Separation

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. -Kahlil Gibran

Revealed

People do not change, they are merely revealed. -Anne Enright

Trust Your Heart

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward. -E.E. Cummings

My Country

As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world. -Virginia Woolf

Evidence

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence. -Christopher Hitchens

Too Far

Going too far and caring too much about a subject is the best way to make friends. -Sarah Vowell

Compassion

Compassion is the basis of morality. -Arthur Schopenhauer

Pretend

Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. -Cassandra Clare

No Mistakes

It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes. -Joseph Conrad

True Friendship

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. -Jean de La Fontaine

Inside

We are always the same age inside. -Gertrude Stein

Do Not Stop

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. -Confucius

A Waste

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are. -Marilyn Monroe

Stupid People

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups. -George Carlin

Like Magic

When you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic. -Laini Taylor

Hatred

Hatred is a curved blade, and the harm we do to others we also do to ourselves. -Mitch Albom

The Past

The past is never where you think you left it. -Katherine Anne Porter

Absence

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. -François de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing On Earth

Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you. -Selma Lagerlöf

Changes

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. -Andy Warhol

Through Doors

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open. -Rose Wilder Lane

Everything

You are not everything, but everything could not be everything without you. -Joseph Pintauro

We Dream

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate. -Amy Tan

Out Of Your Control

Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy. -Nora Roberts

Some Days

“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.” -Bill Watterson

Giving

No one has ever become poor by giving. -Anne Frank

Unfed Mind

The unfed mind devours itself. -Gore Vidal

Careless Words

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less. -Arundhati Roy

Of All Sad Words

Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.' -John Greenleaf Whittier

The Real Ones

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. -Laura Ingalls Wilder

Shadow-Truths

Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot. -Neil Gaiman

A Word

A word after a word after a word is power. -Margaret Atwood

Destiny

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. -Jean de La Fontaine

My Idea

In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my 'idea of them.' -Anaïs Nin

Entirely Honest

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. -Sigmund Freud

Doormat

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. -Rebecca West

The Moon Howls

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. -George Carlin

I Just Forget

“I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.” -Jennifer Egan

Immature

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. -Pat Monahan

Another Chance

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. -Oprah Winfrey