“There is literally nothing in nature that blooms all year long, so do not expect yourself to do so.”— liryae, liryae.tumblr.com
“Do you like to draw with crayons? I'm not very good at it. But it doesn't matter. It's the fun of doing it that's important. Now, I would't have made that if I just thought about it. No matter how anybody says it is. It feels good to have made something. The best thing is that each person's would be…”— Mr. Rogers, youtube.com
“As you grow old, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more than the negative that you’re going to die, it's also the positive that you understand you’re going to die, and that you live…”— Morrie Schwartz, amazon.com
“Don’t be afraid of losing people, be afraid of losing yourself trying not to lose someone else.”— Unknown, facebook.com
“It's understood that Hollywood sells Californication. Pay your surgeon very well to break the spell of aging.”— Red Hot Chili Peppers, open.spotify.com
“Stop letting your friends treat you like shit just because you don't want to lose them. Fuck that, get new friends.”— Unknown, facebook.com
“You go talk to kindergartners or first-grade kids, you find a class full of science enthusiasts. They ask deep questions. They ask, "What is a dream, why do we have toes, why is the moon round, what is the birthday of the world, why is grass green?" These are profound, important questions. They just…”— Carl Sagan, amazon.com
“Well, I've been afraid of changin' 'Cause I've built my life around you But time makes you bolder Even children get older And I'm getting older, too”— Stevie Nicks, youtube.com
“The truth is this: No one stays the same forever. Girls grow up, and sometimes we do it with a bang. We can learn something from the Good Girls Gone Bad of every decade: how to claim yourself, how to rewrite your narrative, that it’s never too late to change.”— Michelle Ofiwe, rookiemag.com
“I’ve seen many ‘good girls go bad,’ but I specifically remember when Rihanna named her fourth album after the trope, effectively putting the industry on notice: We were about to encounter an entirely new woman... Being a young woman is complex. We’re told, in some capacity, that our silence protects…”— Michelle Ofiwe, rookiemag.com
“Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.”— Robert Tew, consciouslifenews.com
“there’s nothing wrong with admitting you were once toxic. there’s nothing wrong with admitting you made a couple people feel like shit. there’s nothing wrong with admitting you fucked up and were horribly arrogant and parasitic. there’s nothing wrong with admitting you did anyone wrong, especially i…”— harzburgite, taashasayword.tumblr.com
“The people we surround ourselves with either raise or lower our standards. They either help us to become the-best-version-of-ourselves or encourage us to become lesser versions of ourselves. We become like our friends. No man becomes great on his own. No woman becomes great on her own. The people ar…”— Matthew Kelly, facebook.com
“Be kind to yourself while blooming. I know sometimes it feels like your soul doesn’t always fit. It’s all a part of the process.”— Emery Allen, emeryallen.tumblr.com
“How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied—or, for that matter, awarded — because someone failed to see you properly? How many friends have you lost, how many have you gained, because they glimpsed some ele…”— Kevin Brockmeier, amazon.com
“Yeah, I get it. You're one of the good guys. But guess what. We all think we're good guys.”— Alex Vause, twitter.com
“I believe this world is a damaged place, and if you can find a sliver of happiness, stay in it as long as you can.”— Anonymous, tribecafilm.com
“When someone called me a hero, I wanted to prove them right. When someone called me a devil, I wanted to prove them wrong. It took a lot of self-examination to realize that I was neither. There is a fullness to a person that is gigantic and nuanced and indefinable. It was equally impossible to be a…”— Anonymous, facebook.com