“I am asking you to believe. Not in my ability to bring about change – but in yours.”— Barack Obama, latimes.com
“Don’t stand in the way of your own life, don’t give up when things get hard because quitting will never get you anywhere. Instead work harder and work smarter.”— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com
“I thought that love would last forever. But nothing is forever. Life is not forever. The only reliable permanence is change. Love hurts because change is painful. Love hurts because love lost is an assault on our ego. We fear that we will fail again and those who live in fear of failure slowly but i…”— Chloe Thurlow, amazon.com
“It’s time to make a comeback if you’ve been hiding and it’s time to shine if you’ve been avoiding the light. It’s time to write yourself as a hero not a victim.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“The next chapter of your life is about finding yourself and that doesn’t mean that you have to alienate people or spend all your nights alone, you can let as many people as you want in, as long as you’re the one holding the pen.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“The next chapter of your life is about you because you’ve been trying to be so many things and please so many people that you’ve forgotten who you are and where you belong.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“You deserve someone who will never require you to change in order to fit other people’s standards.”— Dian Tinio, thoughtcatalog.com
“I imagined I was playing a much more important role than the ones I had played before: I was someone who could change the fate of the world.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Every great story begins with heartbreak and ends with glory. Every great story begins with someone else and ends with you.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“Every heartbreak is a stepping stone to find the greatest love of all.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“You fight for yourself when no one else is fighting for you and you learn that it’s not the easiest battle but it’s the most important one.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“Every great transformation begins with heartbreak. Because heartbreak fuels you to change who you are, to change how helpless you feel, to depend on yourself for your own happiness and to start the journey of changing within.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... Why am I so changed?”— Emily Brontë, amazon.com
“We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we're in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present. That now is the creative point of life. So you see its like the idea of forgiving somebody, you change the meaning of the pa…”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“I’m not saying that you are perfect. I’m just saying that I wouldn’t change anything about you.”— Kim Quindlen, thoughtcatalog.com
“The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.”— Alan Watts, books.google.com
“Folks, it's time to evolve. That's why we're troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything's failing? It's because they're no longer relevant. We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?”— Bill Hicks, theunboundedspirit.com
“every now and then, you will feel a dull ache in your soul. a gentle humming around your heart. a longing for something without a name. if i ever told you to obey anything, this would be it.”— Mia Hollow, miahollow.tumblr.com