"Change is the essence of life. Be willing to change what you are for what you could become."
“The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's "own" or "real" life. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.” – C.S. Lewis
“Change is life. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.”
“The only constant in life is change.”
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer. ~Shunryu Suzuki
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble. ~Henry Miller
“You can’t change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.”
“God, grant me the serenity to change the things I can, the courage to accept the things I can’t, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them. ~George Bernard Shaw
“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.” –The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
“No heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.” –Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too. –Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Without love, dreams would have no meaning. –Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“And when you can’t go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.” –Paulo Coelho
“What makes humans human is precisely that they do not know the future. That is why they do the fateful and amusing things they do: who can say how anything will turn out? Therein lies the only hope for redemption, discovery, and--let's be frank--fun, fun, fun! There might be great illicit loves, enduring joy, faith-shaking accidents. But you have to not know in order to see what stories your life's efforts bring you.”
“A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.” –Samuel Johnson
“Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.” –Phyllis McGinely
"Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable." - C.S. Lewis
“We always end up doing the thing we are second best at.” –Marcel Proust
"See I thought love was black and white. That it was wrong, or it was right."
“Mais il m’aime encour et moi, je t’aime en peu plus fort” –Couer de Pirate
“The cure for a heart is to move along, so move along. What don’t kill a heart only makes it strong.” –The Script
“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."
- Marilyn Monroe
- Marilyn Monroe
"Though they stumble, they will never fall, for the Lord holds them by the hand." Psalm 37:24
"A pirate's heart is a heart that even after being trampled repeatedly can still love with so much zeal and confidence. It's a heart that was looted, but has recovered. Meanwhile, a pirate's heart is also an inherent aspect of the human soul. Sad to say, but a pirate is unfaithful, and it owes nothing to anyone." –Coeur de Pirate
“Treasure the one who thinks of you when all others are thinking of themselves.” –James Gunn
“The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be- and when they're not, we cry.”
“I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much.”
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. –Mother Teresa
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. –Mother Teresa
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” –Mother Teresa
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us" -Marianne Williamson
“Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. 'More weight," he says.” –The Crucible
“Love cannot be disavowed. It cannot be put on and taken off like a coat.” –Fifth of March
"I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong." –Samuel Goldwyn
Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for." -Bob Marley
“You are youer than you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive that is youer than you.” –Dr. Seuss
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race”
"There comes a point in your life when you realize who really matters, who never did, and who always will. So don't worry about the people from your past, there's a reason they aren't in the future."
"You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you've never been hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth."
Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth."
“Life is God’s most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.” –The Crucible
“The greatest mistake you can make is life is continuously fearing you will make one.” –Edward Hobbard
"Optimism outweighs realism everyday cuz you have something to hold on to." –Michael Willis
“You do what you love and fuck the rest” –Little Miss Sunshine
“Maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had, and what you've learned from them, and less to do with how many birthdays you've celebrated.”
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." –Pablo Picasso
"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are." –Kurt Cobain
“I think you might be confusing tyranny with losing. And I feel for you, because I've been there. A few times. In fact, one of them was a bit of a nail-biter. But see, when the guy that you disagree with gets elected, he's probably going to do things you disagree with. He could cut taxes on the wealthy, remove government's oversight capability, invade a country that you thought should not be invaded, but that's not tyranny. That's democracy. See, now you're in the minority. It's supposed to taste like a shit taco.” Jon Stewart
“He not busy being born is busy dying.” –Bob Dylan
“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.” –Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.” –C.S. Lewis
Always be joyful. Never stop praying. Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.
--1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
--1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance.
--Romans 5:3
--Romans 5:3
Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. –Abraham Lincoln
I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. –Abraham Lincoln
Let’s have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. –Abraham Lincoln
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. –Abraham Lincoln
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be. –Abraham Lincoln
“A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me” –Abraham Lincoln
“I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end” –Abraham Lincoln
“You can have anything you want - if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.” –Abraham Lincoln
“There have been many times in my life when I have been driven to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no place else to go.” –Abraham Lincoln
“All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.” –James Russell Lowell
“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.” ~Salvador Dali
There are no perfect men in this world, only perfect intentions. ~Pen Densham,Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
“Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.”
“Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.”
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. –Anne Frank
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. Of all wonders that I have yet heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come. –William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
“Tea pot is on, the cups are waiting, Favorite chairs anticipating, No matter what I have to do, My friend there's always time for you”
“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be”
“Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.” –Oscar Wilde
“Our love cannot be measured, it just is.” –John Paul Stevens
“Living might mean taking chances but they're worth taking, Loving might be a mistake but it's worth making.” –Lee Ann Womack
“How can so much good exist in such a tiny heart? And despite of all the pain she's in, she never falls apart.”
“To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”
“I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean. Whenever one door closes, I hope one more opens. Promise me that you’ll give faith a fighting chance, and when you get the choice to sit it out or dance—I hope you dance.” –Lee Ann Womack
“Never waste a minute of your precious life by squandering it thinking about people you don't like”
The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.
-The Lion King
“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.”
“Girls are taught a lot of stuff growing up. If a guy punches you he likes you. Never try to trim your own bangs and someday you will meet a wonderful guy and get your very own happy ending. Every movie we see, Every story we're told implores us to wait for it, the third act twist, the unexpected declaration of love, the exception to the rule. But sometimes we're so focused on finding our happy ending we don't learn how to read the signs. How to tell from the ones who want us and the ones who don't, the ones who will stay and the ones who will leave. And maybe a happy ending doesn't include a guy, maybe... it's you, on your own, picking up the pieces and starting over, freeing yourself up for something better in the future. Maybe the happy ending is... just... moving on. Or maybe the happy ending is this, knowing after all the unreturned phone calls, broken-hearts, through the blunders and misread signals, through all the pain and embarrassment you never gave up hope.” –Gigi, He’s Just Not That Into You
So trust me when I say if a guy is treating you like he doesn't give a shit, he genuinely doesn't give a shit. No exceptions” –Alex, He’s just not that Into you
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says "Go!" - a leader says "Let's go!" ~E.M. Kelly
"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life." –William Osler
"Have you ever thought about what protects our hearts? Just a cage of rib bones and other various parts. So it's fairly simple to cut right through the mess and to stop the muscle that makes us confess. We are so fragile, and our cracking bones make noise and we are just breakable, breakable, breakable girls and boys.” –Ingrid Michaelson, Breakable
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results." –Albert Einstein
“Sick hearts are prone to paranoia.” –The Scarlet Letter
“Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives, is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.”
“Maybe your first love is the one that sticks with you because it’s the only person who will ever receive all of you. After that, you learn better. But, most of all, no matter what, a piece of you forever remains left behind in the heart of the one you loved—a piece no future lover could ever get, no matter what. That piece holds innocence, the belief that love really can last forever. It holds friendship and pain, trial and error, that one kiss you’ll never forget, and that night under the stars you can never get back. It holds youth and everything you thought love would be, everything that was proven wrong.”
“I kinda miss the bond we shared. I mean, who wouldn’t miss that comfortable feeling with a person. Where we could talk for hours about everything, anything and not have a problem with the silence in the middle. Can’t forget all the ridiculous stuff we did. Stupid or not, everything was just so fun. Endless nights, real talks, the “remember whens” I remember it all. And it’s funny what life does, how it could just give you things and take it away so soon. I really can’t get it to my head that you grow distant from people and that good things come to an end sooner or later. But along the way I learned one thing about life; it goes on, you just gotta pick yourself up and keep up.”
“What is love? Are your palms sweaty, is your heart racing, and is your voice caught within your chest?- it isn’t love, it’s like. You can’t keep your eyes or hands off of them, am I right? –it isn’t love, it’s lust. Are you proud and eager to show them off? –it isn’tlove, it’s pride. Do you want them because you know they’re there? –it isn’t love, it’s loneliness. Are you there because it’s what everyone wants? –it isn’t love, it’s loyalty. Are you there because they kissed you, or held your hand? –it isn’t love, it’s low confidence. Do you stay for their confessions of love, because you don’t want to hurt them? –it isn’t love, it’s pity. Do you belong to them because their sight makes your heart skip a beat? –it isn’t love, it’s infatuation. Do you pardon their faults because you care about them? –it isn’t love, it’s friendship. Do you tell them every day that they are the only one you think of? –it isn’t love, it’s a lie. Are you willing to give all of your favorite things for their sake? –it isn’t love, it’s charity. Does your heart ache and break when they’re sad? –then it’s love. Do you cry for their pain, even when they’re strong? –then it’s love. Do their eyes see your true heart, and touch your soul so deeply it hurts? –then it’s love. Do you stay because a blinding, incomprehensible mix of pain and relation pulls you close and holds you there? –then it’s love. Do you accept their faults because they’re a part of who they are? Then it’s love. Are you attracted to others, but stay with them faithfully without regret? Then it’s love. Would you give them your heart, your life, your death? Think about it for a second.”
“Tears are words the heart can't express”
“Run your fingers through my soul. For once, just once, feel exactly what I feel, believe what I believe, perceive as I perceive, look, experience, examine, and for once; just once, understand.”
“Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.” –David Borenstein
“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.” -Audrey Hepburn
"Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I have ever known."
"We rejoice in hope of the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. " –Romans 5:2-5
“God understands our prayers even when we can’t find the right words to say them.”
“If the only prayer you said in your life was, “thank you,” that would suffice.” –Meister Eckart
"We always want what we can’t have. And when we have what we need, we don’t realize it."
"If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one. Because if you truly loved the first one, you wouldn’t love another one."
“So we have to remember sometimes the most important history is the history we’re making today.”
“I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.”
“If there's a glimmer there, there's a chance for a piercing bright light of it” –Joseph Delaune
“All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A man is what he thinks about all day long.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Always do what you are afraid to do.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.” --Proverbs 4:23
"Faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not seen."
Hebrews 11:1
Hebrews 11:1
“It’s easier to forgive someone for being wrong than to forgive them for being right.” –Albus Dumbledore
So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other.
--John 13:34
--John 13:34
"No exertion of the legs makes two minds closer" –Henry David Thoreau
"How deep the ruts of tradition and conformity" –Henry David Thoreau
"Why should we be in such desperate pace to succeed?" –Thoreau
“Perhaps if he does not march at the same pace as his companion, he hears a different drummer" –Henry David Thoreau
Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. --1 Corinthians 13:7
"If you truly own who you are, no one can use you against you." –Kurt
“The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world.” –FDR
“The behaviors that you allow are what you encourage.”
"Fearless is having the courage to say goodbye to someone who only hurts you, even if you can't breathe without them" --Taylor Swift
"It's just when you want... no when you need people to be there for you They're not.. they're like a million miles away And when you think someone is totally reliable and trustworthy and you've built your whole life around them and then it turns out they were never that person."
“Don’t ever lay down and quit”
“Never lose hope. It’s all you’ve got to hold on to.”
"The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs."
“Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away.”
“It does not matter how slow you go as long as you don’t stop.” –Confucius
“I’ve learned a lot this year.. I learned that things don’t always turn out the way you planned, or the way you think they should. And I’ve learned that there are things that go wrong that don’t always get fixed or get put back together the way they were before. I’ve learned that some broken things stay broken, and I’ve learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you”
The man is the head, but the woman is the neck. And she can turn the head any way she wants.
"What if I stumble? What if I fall? What if I slip and I make fools of us all? Will the love continue? When the walk becomes a crawl? What if I stumble? What if I fall?"
We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. -Carlos Castenada
“Children will grow up substantially what they are by nature, and only that.” –Augustine St. Clare, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. –Mother Teresa
“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.”
“If you are unwilling to own your words I strongly suggest you keep quiet.” –Mr. Mitchell
Love is fragile and we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can and hope this fragile thing survives against all odds.
“Things change. And friends leave. And life doesn’t stop for anybody.” –Charlie, the perks of being a wallflower
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known
Tomorrow, I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. –Paulo Coelho
“So let's stop condemning each other. Decide instead to live in such a way that you will not cause another believer to stumble and fall.” --Romans 14:13, NLT
“It is better to fail at a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed at a cause that will ultimately fail.”
"Knowing is better than wondering, waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beats the hell out of never trying." –Meredith Grey
“The more I see of the world, the more I am dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
“Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.” –James Thurber
“So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.” –the perks of being a wallflower
“I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.” –the perks of being a wallflower
“Love is not finding Mr./Mrs. Right, but becoming Mr./Mrs. Right.”
“Greeks did not write obituaries. They merely asked one question after a man died. Did he have passion?” –
Serendipity
“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.” –Serendipity
“If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself you should say: “He obviously does not know me very well, since there are so many other faults he could have mentioned"”
“Sometimes on a way to a dream, you get lost and find a better one.”
“I was, but then I realized I was holding on to something that didn’t exist anymore. That the person I missed didn’t exist anymore. People change. The things we like and dislike change. And we can wish they wouldn’t all day long, but that never works” -perks
“everything happens for a reason; people make mistakes, and i made a mistake. it just depends on how you learn from it. if you can grow from it and become a better person, at the end of the day it’s all good.”
“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.”
“Whatever you are, you are. Be proud of it.”
“I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.”
"The point of life is not to get anywhere—it is to notice that you are, and have always been, already there. You are, always and forever, in the moment of pure creation. The point of life is therefore to create—who and what you are, and then to experience that" Conversations with God
Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry.
--James 1:19
--James 1:19
“If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
“As I’m growing, I’ve learned several things. Life’s full of disappointments & people you trusted will sooner or later let you down. I’ve learned that often those you love will love someone else & there’s only one way to fall; fast & hard. I’ve learned that out of thousands of smiles, it takes one to touch your heart. I’ve found that words can be deceiving, but the truth always lies in a person’s eyes. I’ve learned that everything can change in the blink of an eye & tears often come without invitation. I’ve learned crying can make us stronger & there’s never too much love to go around. I’ve learned sticks & stones may leave cuts & bruises, but harsh words leave scars. I’ve found that every time you give someone a piece of your heart, it’s a piece that you’ll never get back. I’ve learned the past is meant to be put behind us & we can’t dwell on regrets, for what’s done is done. I’ve learned that trusting yourself is the first step & that forgiving helps your own heart more than theirs. I’ve found that family isn’t always blood & that doesn’t really matter. I’ve learned life’s unexpected & that God can do anything. I’ve learned some things aren’t meant to be understood & that only time heals. I’ve found that imagination is our greatest gift & that we’re meant to dream for a reason. I’ve learned it’s never too late to fall in love & that being “beautiful” is all on the inside. Mistakes are our best teachers & everything happens for a reason. Only then can you live life to it’s full & true potential.”
