“Across centuries and continents, all of history conspired to bring you to where you are. And THIS day in your life was JUST the beginning of a longer story, the first pen stroke of something new. Tomorrow, the second. Rest up!”— Lin-Manuel Miranda, twitter.com
“Breathe deep. That hitch in your breath is a record scratch. That throbbing in your temple is the bass, and you control the volume knob. The scars in your mind and your heart are grooves that run deep. YOUR music. YOUR heart. YOUR life. You got the aux cord. Bump it.”— Lin-Manuel Miranda, twitter.com
“Allow for the possibility that the best of you is still inside you, waiting to emerge. Prepare the way, bit by bit”— Lin-Manuel Miranda, twitter.com
“Inertia’s a helluva drug. If you’ve been going nonstop, be an object at rest. If you’ve been at rest too long, get in motion. YOU decide your momentum, love.”— Lin-Manuel Miranda, twitter.com
“If you can find joy in setting up the board, playing the game itself feels like flying. Prepare the way for your own joy. Fly.”— Lin-Manuel Miranda, twitter.com
“You are so loved and we like having you around. There. Stay put, you. Tug if you need anything.”— Lin-Manuel Miranda, twitter.com
“Be brave and be kind because you will always get stronger by the path you leave behind.”— Nakkiah Lui, twitter.com
“And it's as well, to do it while I'm alive to see to it myself — for I've often observed that if you leave your world's gear to the poor when you're dead, just for the good reason that you can't take it to the grave with you — it'll melt in a wonderful way through the hands of the 'secretaries' and…”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“Now, when for the third time his fairy castle of perfect peace and pleasure seemed shaken to its foundations, when he again realized the uncertainty of life or death, he felt bewildered and wretched.”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“What matters the death of one man in a million? Unless, indeed, it be a man whose life, like a torch uplifted in darkness, has enlightened and cheered the world — but the death of a mere fashionable 'swell', whose chief talent has been a trick of lying gracefully — who cares for such a one? Society…”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“I like things to be strange and beautiful and, if and when possible, not done before. I’d rather fail gloriously and foolishly than turn in efficient and adequate work again and again. That’s just the way I am.”— Anthony Bourdain, gq.com
“Life assumed for him a new form . . . it was no longer, as he had once been inclined to think, a mere empty routine — it was a treasure of inestimable value fraught with divine meanings. Gradually, the touch of modern cynicism that had at one time threatened to spoil his nature, dropped away from hi…”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“We never really talked much or even looked at each other, but it didn't matter because we were looking at the same sky together, which is maybe even more intimate than eye contact anyway. I mean, anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.”— John Green, amazon.com
“When I was much younger, I should probably have enjoyed the innocent gayeties of life, as much as most of my age.”— Martha Washington, amazon.com
“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.”— Martha Washington, amazon.com
“I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.”— Martha Washington, amazon.com
“I couldn't let go of the cool, new mom with the cool job persona.”— Marilynn Lerum, cupcakesandcashmere.com
“No matter how small, start now. 15 minutes toward your goal is better than 0 minutes.”— J.T. Ellison, twitter.com