“A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence.”— Mandy Hale, amazon.com
“All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel…. Think about it. There’s escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them i…”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“Find out why you’re after what you’re after. Ignore those who mess with your pace. Let them covet what you have, not the other way around.”— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com
“It’s hard to go. It’s scary and lonely…and half the time you’ll be wondering why the hell you’re in Cincinnati or Austin or North Dakota or Mongolia or wherever your melodious little finger-plucking heinie takes you. There will be boondoggles and discombobulated days, freaked-out nights and metaphor…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren’t a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.com
“An amazing thing happens when you stop seeking approval and validation: You find it. People are naturally drawn like magnets to those who know who they are and cannot be shaken.”— Mandy Hale, amazon.com
“I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, then it is beautiful. If not, it can’t be helped.”— Fritz Perls, echopen.wordpress.com
“I’m learning persistence and the closing of doors, the way the seasons come and go as I keep walking on these roads, back and forth, to find myself in new time zones, new arms with new phrases and new goals. And it hurts to become, hurts to find out about the poverty and gaps, the widow and the leav…”— Charlotte Eriksson, amazon.com
“I never used to be bothered by how small I was. Then something happened… and I was. Then I fell in love with myself again, and I wasn’t bothered anymore. I never will be again.”— Quinta Brunson, thequintab.tumblr.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