“Bloom where you’re planted. Be aware of the greatness that you are and realize that without you, the seaming of this mysteriously interconnected world would cease to exist as it is. Hope is never gone, it’s just ignored.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“Don’t trust people who don’t support you as you try to grow into a more mature and self-realized person. Don’t confide in people who aren’t as interested in your triumphs as they are in your downfalls.”— Danielle Mertina, fweakofcydonia.tumblr.com
“I am convinced that most people do not grow up. We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.”— Maya Angelou, amazon.com
“Everyone has doubts. Everyone freaks out about where they are in life. But that’s a good thing. You’re open to change and growth.”— Ari Eastman, thoughtcatalog.com
“You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.”— Jane Hirshfield, amazon.com
“I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we’re actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we’re suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before.”— C. Joybell C., goodreads.com
“There may come a day when they fall out of love with you. Do not let this be the day you fall out of love with you. How long they choose to stay will never be your decision, but how you choose to rise is.”— Bianca Sparacino, amazon.com
“You will either step forward into growth or you will step backward into safety.”— Abraham Maslow, brainyquote.com
“The ability to critique oneself and change and to hear critique from others is the condition of being that makes us capable of responsibility.”— Bell Hooks, amazon.com
“Every day I got up, went to work, and got hit in the face with something that I never could have predicted from a business that I'd originally started so I wouldn't have to talk to people. I went from doing small tasks with measurable results (selling more clothes!) to abstractions like going on E!…”— Sophia Amoruso, amazon.com
“The biggest challenge is to stay small while growing much bigger, which is to say that, as organizations grow large, sometimes they forget important stuff.”— Craig Newmark, amazon.com
“Have we ever complained because we are misunderstood, misjudged, misidentified, slandered, misheard, and not heard? Precisely this is our fate — oh, for a long time yet! It is also our distinction; we should not honor ourselves sufficiently if we wished that it were otherwise. We are misidentified —…”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“The gardens that have graced this mortal Eden of ours are the best evidence of humanity's reason for being on Earth. Where history unleashes its destructive and annihilating forces, we must, if we are to preserve our sanity, to say nothing of our humanity, work against and in spite of them. We must…”— Robert Pogue Harrison, amazon.com