“If you focus on success, you’ll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“You do not get to destroy someone and decide how ruined they are allowed to feel.”— Anonymous, oriejames.tumblr.com
“The question to ask, when you feel pride, then, is this: What am I missing right now that a more humble person might see?”— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com
“Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, globalcitizen.org
“Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.”— Ellen Degeneres, advocate.com
“I’d found out that if you pushed people away hard enough, they tended to go.”— Morgan Matson, amazon.com
“You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.”— Laurie Halse Anderson, amazon.com
“There isn’t a thing to eat down there in the rabbit hole of your bitterness except your own desperate heart.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com