“In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.”— Mary Oliver, goodreads.com
“You always have the opportunity to learn, evolve, forgive, and change for the better.”— Sade Andria Zabala, thoughtcatalog.com
“Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.”— Roy T. Bennett, amazon.com
“Love makes you want to be better…But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the…[person] you are.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“Some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that’s the way it’s supposed to be.”— Judy Blume, amazon.com
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”— Ernest Hemingway, goodreads.com
“Nobody enjoys the company of a person who hasn’t washed their stinky soul.”— Torre Deroche, fearfuladventurer.com
“I wanted to give up the idea I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“When it comes to self-improvement, investing 10 percent of your income on yourself will yield a 100X or more return on that investment. For every dollar you spend on your education, skills, and relationships, you'll get at least 100 dollars back in returns.”— Benjamain Hardy, cnbc.com
“The problem with resolutions is they’re only as solid as the person making them.”— Ellen Hopkins, amazon.com
“It’s not important to be significant. It’s important to follow those kinds of questions that are grabbing you.”— Hubert Dreyfus, full-tilt.blogspot.com
“Spend a little time in the wellness world, and it seems like everyone has an official diagnosis.”— Amy Larocca, thecut.com
“Maybe I’d just buy a few, maybe just the $40 probiotic mist to balance and restore my facial microbiome.”— Amy Larocca, thecut.com
“It used to be a butcher, a baker, and a hardware store. Now it’s SoulCycle, Juice Press, and a meditation place.”— Cristina Greeven, thecut.com
“Rich and beautiful people don’t just go to nicer places, their organs work better.”— Amy Larocca, thecut.com
“One day the people that never believed in you, will brag about how the used to know you.”— Evan Hufferd, twitter.com
“Let’s not dance around the fact that a lot of dreams aren’t sacred, beautiful things. They are bullshit. The person who claims to want to be a writer, but doesn’t do any writing. The person who wants to be a singer but actually just wants to be famous. The person who sees other people making million…”— Ryan Holiday, thoughtcatalog.com
“Fuck my dreams of hearing ‘It’s perfect’ on the first try. I need to hear ‘It can be a lot better.”— Ryan Holiday, thoughtcatalog.com
“I believe that today we're facing a psychological epidemic, one in which people no longer realize it's okay for things to suck sometimes.”— Mark Manson, amazon.com