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Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager. ― Susan Sontag

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. ― Anne Frank

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite. ― Cassandra Clare

Searching for happiness prevents us from ever finding it. -Pema Chödrön

But the beauty is in the walking — we are betrayed by destinations. ― Gwyn Thomas

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. ― Steven Wright

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning. ― Gloria Steinem

Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. – Mary Oliver

Safe, I decided, didn’t leave much room for fun. ― Justina Chen

We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another. ― Veronica Roth

If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. ~Flavia

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. ― Eleanor Roosevelt

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle. ― Christian D. Larson

When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have … Continue reading →

In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I just live. ― Sarah Brightman

In literature and in life we ultimately pursue, not conclusions, but beginnings. ― Sam Tanenhaus

Words are like nets – we hope they’ll cover what we mean, but we know they can’t possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder. ― Jodi Picoult

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. ― Terry Pratchett

A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape. ― Rebecca Solnit

When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. ― Haruki Murakami

Climb mountains not so the world can see you, but so you can see the world. ― David McCullough

The beginning is always today. ― Mary Shelley

Ends are not bad things, they just mean that something else is about to begin. And there are many things that don’t really end, anyway, they just begin again in a new way. Ends are not bad and many ends … Continue reading →

It is either easy or impossible. – Salvador Dali

Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for. ―Immanuel Kant

Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark. … Continue reading →

When you are afraid, just train! When something doesn’t feel right, just train! When you don’t believe in yourself anymore, just train! The only think that won’t betray you is your training. –Sakaki

If I offer you a glass of water, and bring back a cup of ice, I’m trying to teach you patience. And also that sometimes you get ice with no water, and later you’ll get water with no ice. Ah, … Continue reading →

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward. ― E.E. Cummings

Do the thing and you will have the power. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it. ― Ray Bradbury

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. ― Steve Jobs

Creativity takes courage. ― Henri Matisse

The things that we love tell us what we are. ― St. Thomas Aquinas

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. ― John Steinbeck

Life has a funny way of testing you to see if you really want, what you say you want. ― Turcois Ominek

Eyes can only capture objects that already seen in mind. And mind can only see things that already written in heart. ― Toba Beta

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. ― Mahatma Gandhi

I dwell in possibility… ― Emily Dickinson

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are … Continue reading →