“If you think success is predetermined by talent, it becomes a product of something you can’t change. But if you look at it as a product of hard work, then it’s up to you to control the outcome.”— Anders Weiss, time.comTagged: Hard Work, Effort, payoff, olympics, athletes
“You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.”— Michelle Obama, amazon.comTagged: Self-improvement, Decisions, Life, Fear, possibilities
“You convince yourself that no other man on the planet has the same qualities as him and thus you have two choices: get him back or settle for someone who will never measure up. I hope you can recognize the absurdity of this!”— Sabrina Alexis, amazon.comTagged: Love, lasting love, inspiration, Relationships, Dating
“I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.”— Theodore Roethke, poetryfoundation.orgTagged: Future, Fear, Life, learn
“It's just a matter of willpower. The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.comTagged: willpower, Endings, Relationships, Heartbreak
“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.”— Joan Didion, amazon.comTagged: Life, Change, Loss, Heartbreak
“I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.”— Joan Didion, amazon.comTagged: Loss, Grief, Perseverence, Death
“But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you.”— Michael Pollan, amazon.comTagged: food, nutrition, America, system, Politics
“There will be an answer, let it be.”— The Beatles, amazon.comTagged: Life, Let It Be, Lyrics, The Beatles, Song Lyrics
“Woah, woah, partner. Little red flag going up. Something's telling me we should swim through it, not over it.”— Andrew Stanton, Dory, amazon.comTagged: Life, inspiration, Advice, aspiration
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”— Andy Warhol, amazon.comTagged: Change, Life, Creating Change, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Maybe the past is like an anchor holding us back. Maybe you have to let go of who you were to become who you will be.”— Michael Patrick King, Liz Tuccillo, Carrie Bradshaw, Sarah Jessica Parker, lovesujeiry.comTagged: Sex And The City, Life, Love
“Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely how we feel, stop deciding exactly what we want, and just see what happens.”— Carrie Bradshaw, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Sex And The City, Life
“You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.comTagged: Stress, Control, Life
“At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.comTagged: Life, Happiness, Destruction
“The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.”— Randy Pausch, amazon.comTagged: Time, Life
“Things will get easier, people’s minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.”— Ellen Degeneres, books.google.comTagged: Change, Equality, Life
“Decide what your currency is early. Let go of what you will never have. People who do this are happier and sexier.”— Amy Poehler, amazon.comTagged: currency, Happiness, sexiness, Life, Self-awareness
“Don’t do what you know on a gut level to be the wrong thing to do. Don’t stay when you know you should go or go when you know you should stay. Don’t fight when you should hold steady or hold steady when you should fight. Don’t focus on the short-term fun instead of the long-term fall out. Don’t surr…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Joy, Warning, Advice, Life
“I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once.”— Jon Krakauer, amazon.comTagged: strength, Bravery, boldness, Limits, Life
“I think the great illusion of adulthood is that you’re going to get to this phase and be like ‘Oh, now I feel grounded and I feel like I know how to get from here to there.’ But that’s the thing with life. Maybe that’s so and then somebody gets sick and you have to deal with all the feelings that co…”— Anna Sale, thetimbre.comTagged: Adulthood, Myths, Illusions, Life, Surprises
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.comTagged: self, Self-awareness, situation, Change, Challenge
“Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them.”— Mandy Hale, amazon.comTagged: Mandy Hale, Love, Life, Strong Women
“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”— Lewis Carroll, amazon.comTagged: yesterday, Change, Life, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“See, sometimes courage isn’t climbing Mount Everest or changing the world. Sometimes your mountain to climb is made up of weekdays and months, made up of pushing yourself forward even when you want to nestle into the past. Sometimes changing the world means changing your world, as gradually as you n…”— Bianca Sparacino, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Bianca Sparacino, Life, Hard days, Hope
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Amb…”— Gilda Radner, amazon.comTagged: Uncertainty, Ambiguity, Life
“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.comTagged: Change, Life, inspiration, Advice
“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, amazon.comTagged: Change, Life, inspiration, Advice
“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”— Kiran Desai, amazon.comTagged: Change, Life, inspiration, Advice
“Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.”— Maya Angelou, goodreads.comTagged: Change, Life, inspiration, Advice