"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.”
“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
“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
“Most people see the world as a threatening place, and because they do, the world turns out indeed to be a threatening place.” –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! There might be things people get away with (and not just motel towels), great illicit loves, enduring joy, and faith-shaking accidents. But you have to not know in order to see what stories your life's efforts bring you. The mystery is all.” - Curtis Sittenfield
“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
"See I thought love was black and white. That it was wrong, or it was right."
“The cure for a heart is to move along, so move along. What don’t kill a heart only makes it strong.” –The Script
“You won’t find faith or hope down a telescope; you won’t find heart and soul in the stars. You can break everything down to chemicals, but you can’t explain a love like ours.” – 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
"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.” – Mother Teresa
"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier." –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
“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."
“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
“You do what you love and f**k 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
“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, NLT
We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. --Romans 5:3, NLT
“I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.” –Abraham Lincoln
“Everyone has to do their own growing, no matter how tall his grandfather was.” – 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
“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
“There is no good and evil in this world, only power.” – Voldemort
“It is not our abilities that show us who we really are, it’s our choices.” - Dumbledore
“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”
“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
“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
“The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.”
-The Lion King
“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching.”
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says "Go!" - a leader says "Let's go!" ~E.M. Kelly
“No matter what choices I have made or the obstacles I have overcome, I continue to search for the life that eludes me.”
"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't." -- Richard Bach
“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.”
Marcus Aurelius
“I’m thinking about dropping out of school and writing a book about how it was the best decision of my life. But I’m only going to drop out after it gets published, that way it’s a win/win. If it fails, then nobody read it so they don’t know I lied and that it would have been dumb [to drop out]. But if it sells like a boss then I’ll drop out and it was only a good idea because the book about it sold like a boss. God, I’m a genius.” – Christopher Focht
One day, when Abram was left alone to mind his father’s sculpture store, he took a hammer and smashed all of the idols except the largest one. He placed the hammer in the hand of the largest idol. When his father returned and asked what happened, Abram said, "The idols got into a fight, and the big one smashed all the other ones." His father said, "Don't be ridiculous. These idols have no life or power. They can't do anything." Abram replied, "Then why do you worship them?"
"Take what you want. Steal my pride. Build me up, or cut me down to size. Shut me out, but I’ll just scream; I'm only one voice in a million, but you ain't taking that from me." -- Natasha Bedingfield
"The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips, then walk out the door and deny him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable." – DC Talk
“Long before we know ourselves, our paths are already set in stone. Some may never figure out their purpose in life and some will. There are a lot of us who are caught up in this hell we all live in content with being blinded by rules and judgment. We live in a world where it's more okay to follow than to lead. In this world being a leader is trouble for the system we are all accustomed to. Being a leader in this day and age is being a threat. Not many people stood up against the system we all call life, but toward the end…we heard a voice. A voice who was speaking to us from the underground for some time. A voice who spoke of vulnerabilities and other human emotions and issues never before heard so vividly and honest. This is the story of a young man who not only believed in himself, but his dreams too.” – Kid Cudi/ Common
“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.”
“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”
“The first jockstrap was used in Hockey in 1874 and the first helmet was used in 1974. It took men 100 years for you to realize that their brain is also important.”
“I find the whole concept of being ‘sexy’ embarrassing and confusing. If I do an interview with photographs people desperately want to change me - dye my hair blonder, pluck my eyebrows, give me a fringe. Then there’s the choice of clothes. I know everyone wants a picture of me in a mini-skirt. But that’s not me. I feel uncomfortable. I’d never go out in a mini-skirt. It’s nothing to do with protecting the Hermione image. I wouldn’t do that. Personally, I don’t actually think it’s even that sexy. What’s sexy about saying, ‘I’m here with my boobs out and a short skirt, have a look at everything I’ve got?’ My idea of sexy is that less is more. The less you reveal the more people can wonder.” – Emma Watson
Cory: Do you think I'm a geek?
Shawn: Of course not.
Cory: So you think I'm cool?
Shawn: Of course not.
Cory: Then what am I?!
Shawn: You're Cory! I'm Shawn- just like it's always been. What else do you need to know?
A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say. I don’t know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I’d have to say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you’re wrong? What if you’re making a mistake you can’t undo? The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can’t pretend we hadn’t been told. We’ve all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today’s possibility under tomorrow’s rug until we can’t anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying.
