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