“Getting angry at the world for your problems isn't going to bring you any closer to a dream job or relationship or whatever else you feel like you deserve. It's going to keep you thousands of miles away from it.”— Ryan O'Connell, amazon.com
“Having self-love is like nurturing a plant. If you don't take the time to water it, if you start to skip days and get distracted, it will die.”— Ryan O'Connell, amazon.com
“You can only really grow when you start being honest with yourself about who you are in the first place.”— Ryan O’Connell, amazon.com
“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.”— Anaïs Nin, en.wikiquote.org
“We spend so much effort trying to keep parts of our lives hidden, even from our closest friends, that in those rare times when we do open up, it's amazing how minor those secrets all end up being.”— Chris Harris, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com
“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”— John Keats, amazon.com
“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”— Walter Mosley, amazon.com
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made…”— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com
“When a flower doesn't bloom you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.”— OCIZ, facebook.com
“Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.”— Thornton Wilder, amazon.com
“Be kind to yourself while blooming. I know sometimes it feels like your soul doesn’t always fit. It’s all a part of the process.”— Emery Allen, emeryallen.tumblr.com
“When you’re in a relationship you tend to lose yourself, worrying more about your partner instead of your needs. Now, you can figure out what you want in life and understand yourself better. You need independent happiness before you’re in a relationship and it’s a lot faster to learn and grow on you…”— Eumi Er, stackstreet.com
“i am sending my love to your eyes. may they always see goodness in people. and may you always practice kindness. may we see each other as one. may we be nothing short of in love with everything the universe has to offer. and may we always stay grounded. rooted. our feet planted firmly onto the earth…”— Rupi Kaur, amazon.com
“This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.”— Michael Cunningham, amazon.com
“'See that flower? That flower was in a small pot in my living room but it outgrew it's surroundings. So I transplanted it here in the garden. Now when I pulled it out of the small pot in my living room, it resisted a little. It tried to hang on by its roots. I had to force it out.' 'Because you thou…”— Mr. Feeny, amazon.com
“Change…We don’t like it, we fear it. But we can’t stop it from coming. We either adapt to change, or we get left behind. It hurts to grow. Anybody who tells you it doesn’t, is lying. But here’s the truth: Sometimes, the more things change, the more they stay the same. And sometimes, oh, sometimes, c…”— Shonda Rhimes, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com
“Brother stand the pain; Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose. A particular glows with the universal.”— Rumi, suficomics.com
“You’ve got to embrace discomfort. It’s the only way you can put yourself in situations where you can learn, and the only way you can keep your senses fresh once you’re there.”— Louis CK, gq.com