“If you want stable love, you have to be stable yourself.You have to know what you want from life even if you’re not there, you have to understand what you want out of a relationship even if you’ve never been in one and you have to be consistent with the love you give to others to receive consistency…”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“I know I'm not going to be able to change the world, but I think it's important to try to make a difference.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“Be the girl who travels and reawaken your sense of hope in the world. Let it change you, transform you, and give you a sort of longing that few other things ever will.”— Jerrica Peterson, thoughtcatalog.com
“You ruin your life by tolerating it. At the end of the day you should be excited to be alive. When you settle for anything less than what you innately desire, you destroy the possibility that lives inside of you, and in that way you cheat both yourself and the world of your potential.”— Bianca Sparacino, thoughtcatalog.com
“Instead of saying “I don’t have time” try saying “it’s not a priority,” and see how that feels. Often, that’s a perfectly adequate explanation. I have time to iron my sheets, I just don’t want to. But other things are harder. Try it: “I’m not going to edit your résumé, sweetie, because it’s not a pr…”— Laura Vanderkam, wsj.com
“The very idea of ‘happily ever after’ is as much an illusion as the idea of 'a cure.’ We are all looking for a quick and complete fix, a cure. We want to be able to say, 'I was this way before and now I am better. It’s great and that’s that.’ Yet we know life doesn’t work that way.”— Tommy Rosen, amazon.com
“I found that every single successful person I’ve ever spoken to had a turning point and the turning point was where they made a clear, specific, unequivocal decision that they were not going to live like this anymore. Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50 and most never…”— Brian Tracy, goodreads.com
“We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”— Carlos Castaneda, goodreads.com
“If I have a slightly better position, and I'm improving my position, then all the tactics are hovering like potential energy.”— Josh Waitzkin, amazon.com
“As in chess, we can expect to see dramatic gains in the personal and professional lives of people who interpret machine feedback—of all kinds—quickly. A particular personality trait that doesn't come easily to everyone will be needed in a lot of situations: the ability to handle or maybe just ignore…”— Tyler Cowen, amazon.com
“...studies of spelling bees show that the winning spellers are those who not only work hard, but who engage in disciplined forms of study that do not always yield immediate positive feedback.”— Tyler Cowen, amazon.com