“Grief can destroy you -- or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. OR you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you dared to recognize at the time, so much meaning it scared you, so you just lived, just took for gran…”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“At the end of the day, you are who you are, and it's probably who you've always been.”— Brooke Davis, amazon.com
“Sometimes my heart aches at how my life has turned out, in a good way. It doesn't mean there haven't been hardships, there have been, but I'm here and here is good.”— Brooke Davis, amazon.com
“Do you know what my mother said to me when I told her I wanted to start a company? She said your chances are one in a million. And I said maybe I'm that one, and she said you're not. And she was wrong. Because I am one in a million.”— Brooke Davis, amazon.com
“Somebody please tell me you've got love figured out, because I got news for you; it's pretty darn messy right now. But I guess it has always been that way. Wanting to be loved, to find somebody that makes your heart ache in a good way ... feel understood.”— Brooke Davis, amazon.com
“Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it’s understanding the necessity of both; it’s engaging. It’s being all in.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“Every action of giving creates an opposite action of receiving and what you receive is always equal to what you've given. Whatever you give out in life, must return to you. It is the physics and the mathematics of the universe.”— Rhonda Byrne, amazon.com
“When you fall in love with life, every limitation disappears. You break the limitations on money, health, happiness, and the limits of joy in your relationships. Fall in love with life, unleash the power within you, and you will become unlimited and invincible!”— Rhonda Byrne, amazon.com
“What you feel about another person, what you think or say about another person, what you do to another person – you do to you. Give judgment and criticism and you give it to yourself. Give love and appreciation to another person or anything, and you give it to yourself.”— Rhonda Byrne, amazon.com
“Dance until your feet hurt. Sing until your lungs hurt. Act until you're William Hurt.”— Phil Dunphy, amazon.com
“Getting angry at the world for your problems isn't going to bring you any closer to a dream job or relationship or whatever else you feel like you deserve. It's going to keep you thousands of miles away from it.”— Ryan O'Connell, amazon.com
“You can only really grow when you start being honest with yourself about who you are in the first place.”— Ryan O’Connell, amazon.com
“There are three intolerable things in life—cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.”— Orson Welles, amazon.com
“People won’t tell you that you actually need love. Sure, you can survive without it. You can drown yourself in self-love. You can take cooking classes, distract yourself from the absence of another person’s touch, try knitting, masturbate excessively. But it won’t cure it. It won’t get rid of the fa…”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“It sucks to have this one person in your life that can derail you at a moment’s notice. But in a way, it feels good knowing that you could ever love someone so much. Or that’s what you tell yourself anyway. It doesn’t matter if something is true or not. The things we tell ourselves can become our tr…”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“It doesn’t matter if you’re not currently where you want to be in your life. What matters is that you’re actively trying to achieve your goals rather than getting defeated.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“If you’re feeling depressed and you’re not sure why, there’s a 70% chance you just need to leave your apartment and be social.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com
“It’s important that you advocate for yourself in both your work and personal life. No one’s going to care more about you than yourself.”— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com