“Never stop. Never stop fighting. Never stop dreaming. And don’t be afraid of wearing your heart on your sleeve …For myself, for a long time… maybe I felt inauthentic or something, I felt like my voice wasn’t worth hearing, and I think everyone’s voice is worth hearing. So if you’ve got something to…”— Tom Hiddleston, youtube.com
“You will learn to make better decisions in life with experience and time.”— Robert Tew, goodreads.com
“Broken people are beautiful. They have to put themselves back together every day.”— Robert Tew, goodreads.com
“It takes a strong person to do their own thing and not wait for anybody else to validate their existence.”— Steven Aitchison, goodreads.com
“Most of us live our lives by accident — we live as it happens. Fulfillment comes when we live our lives on purpose.”— Simon Sinek, startwithwhy.com
“I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits.”— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com
“It’s better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else’s perfectly.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“Do not waste time regretting shoulds or might have beens. A 'Do it!' mindset focuses on the here and now.”— Bev James, amazon.com
“Do not cry because they are past! Smile, because they once were!”— Ludwig Jacobowski, quoteinvestigator.com
“If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.”— Earl Wilson, amazon.com
“It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.”— Roger Babson, goodreads.com
“Sometimes I find myself sitting in one spot for hours, staring at nothing, thinking of nothing, feeling nothing, and most disturbingly, caring about nothing.”— Mahbod Seraji, amazon.com
“I have always lived violently…eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I’ve lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not…”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren’t already complicated enough.”— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com
“Perhaps the most exhausting part of the charade was time spent watching myself through the lens of others; contorting myself into something more palatable for the next person; shouldering guilt and expectations that weren’t mine to bear; and swallowing discomfort when I wanted to bellow, 'I’m not ok…”— Martine Thompson, vogue.com
“It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write, walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes, and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly…”— Yevgeny Zamyatin, amazon.com