“Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us-and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.”
Louisa May Alcott
You can be as logical, rational and objective as you want, it's not going to change the way you feel.
Put it this way; you telling me that lunch is in an hour doesn't make me less hungry.
- from I Wrote This For You
You can be as logical, rational and objective as you want, it's not going to change the way you feel.
Put it this way; you telling me that lunch is in an hour doesn't make me less hungry.
- from I Wrote This For You
“Take chances, take a lot of them. Because honestly, no matter where you end up and with whom, it always ends up just the way it should be. Your mistakes make you who you are. You learn and grow with each choice you make. Everything is worth it. Say how you feel, always. Be you, and be okay with it.”
Unknown
“The truth is, life is rarely exactly the way we want it to be, and other people often don’t act as we would like them to. Moment to moment, there are aspects of life that we like and others that we don’t. There are always going to be people who disagree with you, people who do things differently, and things that don’t work out. If you fight against the principle of life, you’ll spend most of your life fighting battles.”
Richard Carlson
“If you smash into something good, you should hold on until it's time to let go.”
- Under the Tuscan Sun
“Concentrate on how good if feels to be alive. No matter what. Just to see the color of the sky, just to smell the air, and feel the wind in your face.”
Judy Blume
When my arms wrap you round I press
My heart upon the loveliness
That has long faded from the world.
- W.B. Yeats
“You shouldn’t regret anything that you say, because it’s what you were feeling at the moment.”
LeeLee Sobieski
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love. yourself to get anything done in this world.”
Lucille Ball
When my arms wrap you round I press
My heart upon the loveliness
That has long faded from the world.
- W.B. Yeats
“Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you’re really strangers.”
Mary Tyler Moore
“Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.”
Wayne Dyer
It does not count if you believe in yourself when it’s easy to believe in yourself. It does not count if you believe the world can be a better place when the future looks bright. It does not count if you think you’re going to make it when the finish line is right in front of you.
It counts when it’s hard to believe in yourself, when it looks like the world’s going to end and you’ve still got a long way to go.
That’s when it counts. That’s when it matters the most.
- I Wrote This For You
“Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year’s time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.”
Andre Maurois
“To be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”
E.E. Cummings
Bailey: You know what I like most about the stars? You look at them, at all of them up there... and you just know there's gotta be something more than...
Tibby: Life?
Bailey: There has to be.
Tibby: Are you scared?
Bailey: Not of dying, really. It's more that I'm afraid of time. And not having enough of it. Time to figure out who I'm supposed to be... to find my place in the world before I have to leave it. I'm afraid of what I'll miss.
- Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
“There’s the people who you’ve known forever who know you in this way that other people can’t because they’ve seen you change… they’ve let you change.”
My So-Called Life
“It’s terribly amusing how many different climates of feeling one can go through in a day.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Bailey: You know what I like most about the stars? You look at them, at all of them up there... and you just know there's gotta be something more than...
Tibby: Life?
Bailey: There has to be.
Tibby: Are you scared?
Bailey: Not of dying, really. It's more that I'm afraid of time. And not having enough of it. Time to figure out who I'm supposed to be... to find my place in the world before I have to leave it. I'm afraid of what I'll miss.
- Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
“If you smash into something good, you should hold on until it's time to let go.”
- Under the Tuscan Sun
