“No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one’s life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.”— Orson Scott Card, amazon.com
“You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened. That doesn't help you...”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“I am hundreds of little / red decisions scattered on the kitchen floor & so what / if they don’t all taste good.”— Alexis Bates & Logan February, lunalunamagazine.com
“Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.”— William Jennings Bryan , amazon.com
“What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will decide what will get you out of bed in the morning, what you do with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, whom you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude.…”— Fr. Pedro Arrupe, ignatianspirituality.com
“And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”— J. K. Rowling, harvardmagazine.com
“Self-care is not selfish or self indulgent. We cannot nurture others from a dry well. We need to take care of our own needs first, then we can give from our surplus, our abundance.”— Jennifer Louden, amazon.com
“Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.”— Nikola Tesla, npr.org
“Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.”— Henry Miller, goodreads.com
“I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward.”— Susan Cain, amazon.com
“All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, an…”— Ralph Ellison, amazon.com
“Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear.”— Orson Scott Card, amazon.com
“Every one of us is losing something precious to us…Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads- at least that’s where I imagine it- there’s a little room where we store those memories. A room like the st…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Always love more than you are loved and never to be second in this.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don’t want.”— Stanley Kubrick, flavorwire.com
“We must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com