“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
“'Work for change, not cookies,' should be everyone's life philosophy. People fixated on praise, rather than the hard, painful work of meeting a goal, make a lot of fuss but get very little done.”— Heidi N Moore, twitter.com
“Don't rush something that you want to last forever. Work hard, hold fast to your vision, and surrender the rest.”— Jordan Bach, twitter.com
“Life is too short to hold yourself back from feeling something deeply and denying yourself from expressing that. Take risks. Be courageous.”— Gia Sison, twitter.com
“Sometimes it's just a journey, you know?”— Amy Sherman-Palladino, Lorelai Gilmore, Lauren Graham, imdb.com
“For most of us, though, the problem is not a lack of goals but rather too many of them.”— Roy F. Baumeister, goodreads.com
“Love is that micro-moment of warmth and connection that you share with another living being.”— Barbara L. Fredrickson, goodreads.com
“A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet "for sale", who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence - briefly, a person who has remain…”— Erich Fromm, goodreads.com
“Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain. Classic thinking teaches us of the four doors of the mind, which everyone moves through according to their need. First is the door of sleep. Sleep offers us a retreat from the world and all its pain. Sleep marks passing…”— Patrick Rothfuss, goodreads.com
“Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures... There are perhaps three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery; substitutive satisfa…”— Sigmund Freud, goodreads.com
“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”— Carl Gustav Jung, goodreads.com
“Sometimes while I ride the subway I try to look at each person and imagine what they look like to someone who is totally in love with them. I think everyone has had someone look at them that way, whether it was a lover, or a parent, or a friend, whether they know it or not. It’s a wonderful thing, t…”— Dean Spade, samesame.com.au
“I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.”— John Keats, goodreads.com
“My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else?" they asked me the other day. I told them this story: In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked t…”— Tom Waits, goodreads.com
“From a very early time, I understood that I only learn from things I don’t like. If you do things you like, you just do the same shit. You always fall in love with the wrong guy. Because there’s no change. It’s so easy to do things you like. But then, the thing is, when you’re afraid of something, f…”— Marina Abramovic, theguardian.com
“Don’t google your name. Ever. Don’t ‘search’ for yourself on anything that glows in the dark. Don’t let your beauty be something anyone can turn off. Don’t edit your ugly out of your bio. Let your light come from the fire. Let your pain be the spark, but not the timber. Remember, you didn’t come her…”— Andrea Gibson, andrewgibby.tumblr.com