“Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.”— Henry Miller, goodreads.comTagged: Life, Experience, Interest, Happiness
“Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable”— M. Scott Peck, amazon.comTagged: People, Love, Self-Love, Extroversion
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”— Dale Carnegie, amazon.comTagged: Confidence, Action, Motivational
“I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good eith…”— Roald Dahl, amazon.comTagged: Enthusiasm, ENFP, Life, Loving Life, Living Fully
“But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.”— Timothy Ferriss, amazon.comTagged: Friends, Friendship, strength, Weakness
“One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.”— Gretchen Rubin, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Friendship, Friends
“Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.comTagged: Home, Love, Family, Friends, Relationships
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”— Jane Austen, amazon.comTagged: Friendship, Love, All Or Nothing
“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing…”— Rob Siltanen, youtube.comTagged: Change, Idealism, Optimism, Challenge
“I think everybody should like everybody.”— Andy Warhol, mariabuszek.comTagged: Love, Friendship, Relationships, People
“The most important thing in life is your family. There are days you love them, and others you don’t. But, in the end, they’re the people you always come home to. Sometimes it’s the family you’re born into and sometimes it’s the one you make for yourself.”— Carrie, fabuloussatc.tumblr.comTagged: Sex And The City, Friendship, Love
“People are more important than things.”— Randy Pausch, amazon.comTagged: People, Connection, Love, Community, Materialism
“You playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightening about shrinking so that others won’t feel uncomfortable around you. As you let your own light shine, you indirectly give others permission to do the same.”— Marianne Williamson, amazon.comTagged: Self-Acceptance, Love, Taking Chances, Believing In Yourself
“I’m going to find a way to be happy, and I’d really love to be happy with you, but if I can’t be happy with you, then I’ll find a way to be happy without you.”— Randy Pausch, goodreads.comTagged: Happiness, Love, Self-Sufficiancy, Being Alone, Alone
“The idea is to participate in your existence.”— Buddy Wakefield, youtube.comTagged: Life, Living, Taking Action, Taking Initiative, Making Things Happen
“What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don’t want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don’t want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place am…”— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.comTagged: Free Spirit, Self-Contradictory, ENFP, Wild, Tame
“Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night's sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blear…”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.comTagged: Loneliness
“Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world.”— Chris Bradford, amazon.comTagged: Friendship, Friends, Life
“Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.comTagged: Life, Damage, Pain, Healing
“You’ll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. You will need other people and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living breathing screaming invitation to believe better things.”— Jamie Tworkowski, amazon.comTagged: Life, Love, People, Extrovert, Adventure
“I happen to believe that America is dying of loneliness.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.comTagged: Loneliness, Community, Love
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, 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, amazon.comTagged: Life, Living, Extrovert, Being Alive, Joy
“The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts - it gives you what you demand with your actions.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.comTagged: Action, Taking Action, Self-Direction, Fate
“I’ve never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion. We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn’t matter. Life is to be lived.”— Randy Pausch, amazon.comTagged: Self-Pity, Life, Living
“The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.”— Deepak ChopraVerified account, twitter.comTagged: Suffering, Pain, Love, Openness, Letting People In
“Happiness is only real when shared.”— Chris McCandless, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Love, Relationships, Friendship
“The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the motherfucking shit out of love.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.comTagged: Love, Relationships