“Have faith that your mind and heart will always be open to bigger, better experiences than those you have already had.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“Is it possible to avoid pain? Yes, but you’ll never learn anything. Is it possible to know something without ever having experiencing it? Yes, but it will never truly be part of you.”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“How long are you going to keep carrying that one conversation in your heart? The one where you said or did the exact wrong thing? It’s DONE. Nothing left but to learn. Drag it to the trash file. Click ‘empty trash’ Yes, you’re sure. Click. Free up that heart of yours.”— Lin-Manuel Miranda, twitter.com
“It's all pointless—assuming you try to find a point to it. We're coming from somewhere, heading somewhere else. That's all you need to know, right?”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“A rest area on a highway is just a place you pass through. To get from here to there.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I think we've seen a little of life, considering we saw the slaughter of 17 people at our school. Having to see these things again and again is more than enough life experience than we've ever wanted to have. I think saying that students don't have a right to speak out against this is disgusting bec…”— David Hogg, npr.org
“A fearful situation is a challenge you have been given to make you stronger.”— Yoko Ono, twitter.com
“Often our greatest teachers come in the form of people we love who eventually subject us to extreme pain. With pain comes an opportunity for growth; it is the catalyst for evolution. When the pain of staying the same becomes unbearable, we are forced to break self sabotaging habits & adjust our choi…”— Ebonee Davis, twitter.com
“Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.”— Buckminster Fuller, amazon.com
“Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.”— Buckminster Fuller, amazon.com
“My experiences have taught me that service, doing what you love, has rewards that money cannot buy.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“Every person, situation, circumstances, and experience in your life is a reflection of some aspect of who you believe yourself to be.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what the storm’s all about!”— Wesley Snipes, twitter.com
“Just remember that life is a collection of experiences...so try to make every journey a positive one for you and everyone around you.”— Cassey Ho, instagram.com
“...no experience is too slight, and the merest occurrence unfolds like a fate, and fate itself is like a wonderful, vast fabric in which every thread is drawn by an infinitely tender hand and laid next to another, held in place and supported by hundred others.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“You never get over it. But you get to where it doesn’t bother you so much.”— Jeffrey Eugenides, amazon.com
“You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com