Wake up every morning and tell yourself that you’re a badass bitch from hell and that no one can fuck with you and then don’t let anybody fuck with you. Kate Nash
A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms. Unknown
The harder you slam a ball into the ground, the higher it bounces back up… A divorce, a breakup, losing a job, or just feeling seriously down can ground you, rough you up a bit, leave calluses on your feet and grit under your finger nails. But more than that, it leaves you wiser and stronger next time… Life is about experiencing opposites isn’t it? Laurel House
People will kill you over time, and how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like “be realistic”. Dylan Moran
You’ve been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try accepting yourself and see what happens. Louise Hay
What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over. Get a post-bac or try writing for the first time. The notion that it’s too late to do anything is comical. Marina Keegan
Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go. Mooji
No matter how attractive a person’s potential may be, you have to date their reality. Mandy Hale
You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago. Unknown
An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can’t put you down unless you allow it to get inside you. Goi Nasu
You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool. My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to. For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself. Marquis de Sade
Make sure that the love is worth the price of a broken heart. William Chapman
Freedom is the ability to feel love for everyone. Mason Jennings
So what I’m telling you here is that I’m scared of secrets. I’m more scared of keeping things a secret than I am of letting people know that I’m having trouble. People can’t believe how I’m willing to write about my life here. But what I can’t believe is how much better my life could have been if it had not been full of secrets. Penelope Trunk
I believe that we are put here in human form to decipher the hieroglyphs of love and suffering. And, there is no degree of love or intensity of feeling that does not bring with it the possibility of a crippling hurt. But, it is a duty to take that risk and love without reserve or defense. Allen Ginsberg
…throw roses into the abyss and say: ‘here is my thanks to the monster who didn’t succeed in swallowing me alive.’ Nietzsche
A beautiful thing is never perfect. Egyptian proverb
The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their life. Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
The best thing I’ve figured out is to just let things get really awful and wait for the joke. There’s always a joke lurking in the darkest shit. That’s how we forgive ourselves. Steve Almond
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. Roseanne Barr
No one’s life seems great between midnight and 7 a.m. Go to sleep. Things will be better tomorrow. Unknown
You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there. Edwin Louis Cole
Grieve. So that you can be free to feel something else. Nayyirah Waheed
If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. Charles Bukowski
The more you need people to agree with you, the less open you are to what they think, feel, and believe. You cannot share with them because you are trying to change them, and they cannot share with you because you are not listening. Gary Zukav
If you don’t find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you’re teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of your flaws. Unknown
Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface. Marianne Williamson
I will bleed for better reasons this year. YZ
Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That’s one of my favorite things to say. So what. Andy Warhol
It’s hard to hate someone once you understand them. Lucy Christopher
Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. Jennifer Elisabeth
Remember that people will brag about what they’ve achieved, but they don’t brag about the price they paid to get it. Penelope Trunk
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise. Anaïs Nin
Relax. You will become an adult. You will figure out your career. You will find someone who loves you. You have a whole lifetime; time takes time. The only way to fail at life is to abstain. Johanna de Silentio
Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair. Irvin D. Yalom
If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. John Steinbeck
I almost thanked you for teaching me something about survival back there, but then I remembered that the ocean never handed me the gift of swimming. I gave it to myself. YZ
Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose. Eckhart Tolle
Every single “I’m not…” is a creation. The Secret
You can have all the [dating] criteria and standards in the world, but what you draw to you is what you are. If you’re not abundant in love and self-esteem and self-respect and self-worth in [your heart], you’re not going to draw somebody that’s the same way. Iyanla Vanzant
In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel. It hurt when I lost each of the various men I fell in love with. Now, though, I am convinced that no one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it. Paulo Coelho
Not everyone will like you. Not everyone will be kind to you. Not everyone will agree with you. That does not mean you have to be unkind in return. Brianna Wiest
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. Steve Jobs
With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose. Wayne Dyer
Your mental health comes before school baby, always. If its midnight, and you have an exam the next day but your hands have been shaking for the past hour and a half and you’re not so sure you want to be alive anymore, pull out that carton of Ben and Jerry’s and afterwards, go the fuck to bed. So what if you get a 68% on the exam the next day? You took care of yourself and at the end of the day that will always come before a high test score. To hell with anyone who tells you differently. Abbie Nielsen
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim. Nora Ephron
Oh my God, what if you wake up some day, and you’re 65, or 75, and you never got your memoir or novel written; or you didn’t go swimming in warm pools and oceans all those years because your thighs were jiggly and you had a nice big comfortable tummy; or you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life, of imagination and radical silliness and staring off into space like when you were a kid? It’s going to break your heart. Don’t let this happen. Anne Lamott
Other people are not medicine. Amy Poehler
I have been absolutely terrified every moment of my life, and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do. Georgia O’Keefe
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