"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs are people who are alive!"
"When you walk to the edge of all the light you have, and you take the first step into the darkness of the unknown, you must believe that one of two things will happen: there will be something solid for you to stand upon, or you will be taught to fly."
"I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit."
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of the unknown is strength undefeatable."
"I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a teacup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God."
"If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in."
"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else."
"The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us."
"A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are built for."
"When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers."
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."
"A girl should be so lost in God that a man should have to search God to find her."
“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
"The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not the answer."
"I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they are the first to be rescued off sinking ships."
“It’s not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly...Who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
"The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you in some way. You just gotta find the ones worth suffering for."
"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."
"Hate has a reason for everything. Love is unreasonable."
"I haven't failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work."
"The only thing standing between me and greatness is me."
"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, but to create something that will."
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
"Speak your mind---even if your voice shakes."
"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."
"The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good."
"Not all who wander are lost."
"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."
"Treat people as though they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming."
"It is such a secret place, the land of tears."
"Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them."
"Blaze with a fire that is never extinguished."
"Nowhere is our vision more distorted than when we turn it on ourselves."
"As many times as I have experienced such lonely passings, I still don't understand how, with so many people on this planet, so many die alone."
"Don’t take life too seriously; you’ll never get out alive."
"Everybody is somebody else’s weirdo."
"Love is like pin the tail on the donkey: you don't know what you're doing, you don't know where you're going, and when you get it, everyone else knows."
"There is no room for sparks--show her lightning."
"The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it."
"Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return."
"Whoever has loved knows all that life contains of sorrow and joy."
"Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds."
"It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end."
"You were once wild here; Don't let them tame you!"
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you could never do."
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
"I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all….Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart, and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture..."
"Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken."
"You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage--pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically--to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good.'"
"Let go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined."
"For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked."
"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live a day without you."
"There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day."
"Significant relationship prove there worth and depth not in calm seas, but when the storms roll in. How else would you ever know if the boat has leaks? I guess you could live in your comfort cave and never experience anything that is real, but that feels more like prison. Assuredly, that is prison."
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
"Always remember, it’s simply not an adventure worth telling if there aren’t any dragons."
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