“Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.”— Brené Brown, 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
“You don’t get anything you want by subscribing to the social rules of today.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“I don’t know if you ever get better. I don’t know if a person can just wake up one day and decide to be an active participant in their life. I’d like to think so. I’d like to think that people get better each and every day but that’s not really true. People get worse and it’s their stories that end…”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“Stop thinking that everyone is having more sex than you, that everyone has more friends than you, that everyone out is having more fun than you. Not because it’s not true (it might be!) but because that kind of thinking leaves you frozen.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.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 can either try to change everything or just make the most of whatever time we have.”— Ally Carter, amazon.com
“The more you fight it, the worse it’s gonna get. It’s like when your car slides on ice, you stir into the skid.”— Tami Sagher, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com
“There are a lot of little reasons why the big things in our lives happen.”— Joe Kelly, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com
“We’re going to get older whether we like it or not, so the only question is whether we get on with our lives, or desperately cling to the past.”— Stephen Lloyd, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com
“That’s life, you know, we never end up where you thought you wanted to be.”— Marshall Eriksen, amazon.com
“I know it's a mistake, but there are certain things in life where you know it's a mistake but you don't really know it's a mistake because the only way to really know it's a mistake is to make the mistake and look back and say 'yep, that was a mistake.' So really, the bigger mistake would be to not…”— Lily Aldrin, amazon.com
“You can't cling to the past. Because no matter how tightly you hold on, it's already gone.”— Carter Bays, Craig Thomas, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com
“The great moments of your life won't necessarily be the things you do, they'll also be the things that happen to you. Now, I'm not saying you can't take action to affect the outcome of your life, you have to take action, and you will. But never forget that on any day, you can step out the front door…”— Stephen Lloyd, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com
“If you're not scared then you're not taking a chance. And if you're not taking a chance, then what the hell are you doing anyway?”— Joe Kelly, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com
“Even if you know how something's going to end, that doesn't mean you can't enjoy the ride.”— Craig Thomas, Carter Bays, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, amazon.com