“Dare to Be When a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully. When there is darkness, dare to be the first to shine a light. When there is injustice, dare to be the first to condemn it. When something seems difficult, dare to do it anyway. When life seems to beat you down, dare to fight back. When the…”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“God lives in wild, reckless abandon of structure. Shake things up. Say yes when you normally say no. Break all the rules. Follow your intuition. Travel. Talk to strangers. Laugh out loud. Dance like you don't give a fuck. Yell at the ocean. Hug a tree. Spend all your money. Cry when you feel like it…”— Rachel Brathen, instagram.com
“The best sources of stimulation for the brain are physical exercise, mental exercise, and social bonding.”— Daniel G. Amen, amazon.com
“It's amazin', the amount of rejection That I see in my reflection And I can't get out of the way I'm lookin' forward to the girl I wanna be But regret has got a way of starin' me right in the face So I try not to waste too much time At the bathroom sink”— Miranda Lambert, youtube.com
“The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“Write a list of things that are going to get better. Start with you.”— Unknown, metamorphosisofmeg.tumblr.com
“You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.”— Michelle Obama, amazon.com
“It’s easy to take things at face value. The accountant says this is what you owe. Your employee says this is how things are. People say this is the only way it can be done. Accepting implicitly is a great way to find yourself in deep shit.”— Ryan Holiday, thoughtcatalog.com
“While the history books are filled with tales of obsessive, visionary geniuses who remade the world in their image with sheer, almost irrational force, I’ve found that if you go looking you’ll find that history is also made by individuals who fought their egos at every turn, who eschewed the spotlig…”— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com
“Every time you sit down to work, remind yourself: I am delaying gratification by doing this. I am passing the marshmallow test. I am earning what my ambition burns for. I am making an investment in myself instead of in my ego. Give yourself a little credit for this choice, but not so much, because y…”— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com
“But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be a selfish jackass first.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“Don’t do what you know on a gut level to be the wrong thing to do. Don’t stay when you know you should go or go when you know you should stay. Don’t fight when you should hold steady or hold steady when you should fight. Don’t focus on the short-term fun instead of the long-term fall out. Don’t surr…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“Dreams come in all different shapes, and believe it or not giving up is no way to achieve them. Your dream may be different to mine, or his, hers, the rest of the world, or even your families but it is just as attainable as any. Keep working, keep striving and keep challenging yourself to achieve gr…”— Amy Kennedy, satiricalwords.tumblr.com
“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com
“All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.”— Ken Kesey, goodreads.com
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“That's what you do when you want something. You don't look for reasons why it won't work. You look for reasons why it will.”— Taylor Jenkins Reid, amazon.com