“You’ve got to give yourself permission to not have the answers, to survive things going amiss, to exert less energy into bullshit, and trust you’ll be okay. This doesn’t mean become stagnant or coast in mediocrity, but find solace in relinquishing the idea of control. Simply do your best, and vow to…”— Martine Thompson, vogue.com
“I wish for a speedy death to the chill girl within all of us, a kiss of death to the malleable shell of ourselves surviving only on our socialized compulsion to people please. And a long and fruitful life to the woman who has patiently been waiting underneath.”— Martine Thompson, vogue.com
“We are each so deliciously complex and messy; what better way to pay homage to these multiplicities than to feel, to express, and to carve out space to navigate as our purest self?”— Martine Thompson, vogue.com
“You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you just refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That's how I've done it. There's no other way.”— Elizabeth Taylor, amazon.com
“Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can’t always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith.”— Lauren Kate, amazon.com
“You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.”— Yann Martel, amazon.com
“Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.”— Swami Sivanada, goodreads.com
“Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can’t survive…it’s the thing that makes you better than you used to be.”— Jennifer Weiner, amazon.com
“Whenever something negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it.”— Eckhart Tolle, amazon.com
“Do not stress over what you cannot control. You can not control other people. You can not control their behavior, their thoughts, or their beliefs. Focus on yourself, and your happiness. Focus on being in peace with yourself. Spread love and joy, and do not let others negative attitudes affect you.”— glouptips, glouptips.tumblr.com
“Oh what we could be if we stopped carrying the remains of who we were.”— Tyler Knott Gregson, amazon.com
“I want to be a force for real good…I know that there are bad forces, forces that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good.”— John Coltrane, books.google.com.ph
“You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.”— Rumi, goodreads.com
“I am hard on myself. But isn’t it better to be honest about these things before someone else can use them against you? Before someone else can break your heart? Isn’t it better to break it yourself?”— Stephanie Perkins, amazon.com
“There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a person being themselves. Imagine going through your day being unapologetically you.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”— Jojo Moyes, amazon.com