Quotes in category: “Life”:

Endings are not always bad. Most times they’re just beginnings in disguise.

Don’t take my advice. Or anyone’s advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it’s your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.

You know, sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it.

Learn to say ‘no’ to the good so you can say ‘yes’ to the best.

Wisdom means to choose now what will make sense later.I am learning everyday to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be, to inspire me and not terrify me. 

It's not the load that breaks you down---it's the way you carry it.

It’s so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it’s taking forever to come. Then it happens and it’s over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.

I marvel at how even the wrong choices can keep us on the right path. How the worst mistake can wind up being the best thing that ever happened to us.

You are not defeated when you lose. You are defeated when you quit. 

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice. 

The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.

If I’ve learned one lesson from all that’s happened to me, it’s that there is no such thing as the biggest mistake of your existence. There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out. 

You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There’s still lots of good in this world.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist or accept the responsibility for changing them.

I felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from? 

Sometimes you just outgrow people. Don't try to fix or repair, just accept it and move on.

People come and go-- they'll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in your favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past. 

If you want to be happy, be.  

Life is a balance of holding on, letting go, and knowing when to do which of the two.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations. 

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

It doesn’t happen all at once.  You become.  It takes a long time.  

It's so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself.