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"Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours. It is an amazing journey, and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.”
--Bob Moawad
"You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should’ve behaved better."
--Anne Lamott
"You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you."
--Sarah Ban Breathnach
“No one wishes to be ‘rescued’ with someone else’s beliefs. Remember your task is not to convert anyone to anything, but to help the person in front of you get in touch with his or her own strength, confidence, faith, and spirituality, whatever that might be.”
--The Tibetan Book of Living And Dying
“We always imagine that there’s got to be somewhere else better than where we are right now; this is the Great Somewhere Else we all carry around in our heads. We believe Somewhere Else is out there for us if only we could find it. But there’s no Somewhere Else. Everything is right here… Make this your paradise or make this your hell. The choice is entirely yours. Really.”
--Brad Warner
"Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony."
--Douglas Coupland
"People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept."
--Libba Bray
"Learned we may be with another man's learning; we can only be wise with wisdom of our own."
--Euripides
“Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.”
--Norman Vincent Peale
“Nobody can give us what we really already are. Wouldn’t it be terrible if somebody could give you what you really are? Because if they could give it to you, they could take it away.”
--Adyashanti
"If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.”
--Henry Miller
“The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.”
--Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”
--Henry David Thoreau
"There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy and a tragedy."
--Mark Twain