“Hold that white flag close to your heart And pluck the orange from the sun – it is setting Let it set on your palms Let your shaking bones beat like djembe drums Let your surrender fall to the ground So it can hold this tiny blue earth together. There is an ocean inside of you and Its waves come in…”— Tammy Danan, thoughtcatalog.com
“I see smoke each time I look in the mirror Perhaps this is God’s way of keeping me safe He knows I’m tired of seeing dead birds in rusting cages. Last night, I called the wind and asked How she taught the dove to fly ‘the sky is a map if you know how to look’ She said. And I looked at my skin, marke…”— Tammy Danan, thoughtcatalog.com
“most people fear the fire there’s the burning the suffocation the losing who wouldn’t be afraid of the fire? You. when you reach that dark alley and decided to make a left when you skipped morning coffee because you’ve had too much wine when you felt so heavy-hearted but scuffled upon approaching yo…”— Tammy Danan, thoughtcatalog.com
“Afraid of dying, yes, but even more of not having lived, afraid of passing my days in a stupor, afraid of squandering my moment in the light.”— Scott Russell Sanders, amazon.com
“I also have another quality, and that is an unshakable hunger to know who I am, where I am, and into what sort of cosmos I have been so briefly and astonishingly sprung.”— Scott Russell Sanders, amazon.com
“What made you sad is just as important as with what made you happy.”— Juansen Dizon, wnq-writers.com
“It’s nice to finally feel that maybe my body is trying to adapt to me instead of me trying to adapt to my body, like I was for 17½ years.”— Skylar Kergil, bostonglobe.com
“I am defined by my career. I am defined by my employer. I am a dancer, dreamer, writer. I am nothing at all.”— Stephanie Georgopulos, thoughtcatalog.com
“The magical and the extraordinary are with me and with everyone in the Universe all the time, but sometimes we forget that and need to be reminded, even if we have to cross the largest continent in the world from one side to the other.’”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“You know how mountains get moved? Everyone who can move a couple, move a couple. Those who can move rocks, move rocks. Those who can move boulders, move boulders. That’s how mountains get moved. If every one of us did everything we could, I believe we would be in a different world.”— Chris Gardner, amazon.com
“Don't ever let someone tell you, you can't do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you got to protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they want to tell you you can’t do it. You want something, go get it. Period.”— Chris Gardner, amazon.com
“Strong people stand up for themselves. Stronger people stand up for others.”— Chris Gardner, amazon.com
“The secret to success: find something you love to do so much, you can’t wait for the sun to rise to do it all over again.”— Chris Gardner, amazon.com