“I’m beginning to recognize that real happiness isn’t something large and looming on the horizon ahead, but something small, numerous and already here. The smile of someone you love. A decent breakfast. The warm sunset. Your little everyday joys all lined up in a row.”
- Beau Taplin
“Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it.”
- C. JoyBell C.
“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
- Neil Gaiman
“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”
- Iain Thomas
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
- Kahlil Gibran
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.”
- James Baldwin
“Isn’t it a shame that we are so quick to forgive the humanness in someone else’s soul, but we often forget to forgive ourselves? Isn’t it a shame that we fight for others, we believe in them with such intensity, and such hope, but we often forget to fight for ourselves?”
- Bianca Sparacino
“You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could’ve, would’ve happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.”
- Tupac Shakur
“I’ve heard that no matter what you’re going through, someone has it worse. I don’t like that statement. I’ve never liked it. It’s emotionally dismissive, and it teaches us our personal struggles are insignificant. So we hide, and we refuse to cry out, and we try not to burden others with our pain. Someone might have it worse, true...But we are all broken, and we are all human, and we are never alone...”
- Sarah Beth McClure
“It’s extremely rare to find someone that cares about you without another agenda. One that wants to see you achieve your dreams, encourages you to grow and is there through all your mess. Be grateful for those people in your life, and always keep them close!”
- Lewis Howes
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of the intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the beauty in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that one life has breathed easier because you lived here. This is to have succeeded.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Maturity is knowing that when your mood is down, you should not trust the way you see yourself.”
- Yung Pueblo
“There are two things I judge harshly on —the inability for one to admit when they are wrong, and the lack of courage to say “I am sorry” — that tells me all I need to know. Because we are all wrong at some point. But not all of us are sorry.”
- J.M. Storm
“You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge. Apologize for mistakes. Apologize for unintentionally hurting someone — profusely. But don’t apologize for being who you are.”
- Danielle Laporte
“Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.”
- H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don’t quite fit in anywhere. And then you walk into a room one day, whether it’s at university or an office or some kind of club, and you just go, 'Ah. There they are.' And suddenly you feel at home.”
- Jojo Moyes
“I’m such an incredibly, stupidly sensitive person that everything that happens to me, I experience it really intensely. I feel everything very deeply. And when you feel things deeply and you think about things a lot and you think about how you feel, you learn a lot about yourself. And when you know yourself, you know life.”
- Fiona Apple
“How you make others feel about themselves, says a lot about you.”
- Unknown
“Do you ever wonder how much you exist in other people’s lives? I’m always curious if people think of me when a certain song comes on, or when they pass through a certain town. I wonder how many stories I’ve been a part of that I may have forgotten. I wonder if I still I exist in the minds of people that I don’t speak to anymore. I wonder how many times a day I pass through someone’s head.”
