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You can’t have relationships if you’re not willing to open yourself up and lean on people as much as you want them to lean on you.
— Martina Boone, Illusion
There are many places you need to be, but there is nowhere to reach. There are many people you need to see but no one to meet. And there are many contacts in your phone but no one to talk. There are many masks in your closet but no face to please.
— Jasz Gill
Meredith was good, so incredibly good, and Charles had fallen, without fireworks, for that goodness. But goodness did not transfer. Being with someone good does not make you good. This it would take years for Charles to comprehend.
— Mai Al-Nakib, The Hidden Light of Objects
Nobody should be alone," Sissix said. "Being alone and untouched...there's no punishment worse than that. And she's done nothing wrong. She's just different.
— Becky Chambers
The wounded, the incomplete, the unbalanced, the malfunctioning, the ill seek each other out: like attracted to like.
— William Boyd, Waiting for Sunrise
No love is lost; unless we try, to make it last forever.
— Seekerohan, Caged: The Price of Pride
In relationships, always strive to give more than you take -- that's how you make a bigger impact.
— Adam Kirk Smith
People don't vanish from one's life they come back in disguise. 
— Yiyun Li, Kinder Than Solitude
By holding hands a couple can always say a lot of things they couldn’t have otherwise said in a public place. Among a million people, they can touch and tickle each other at their most intimate places: their hearts.
— Love, Life, and Logic
Do not let your boss, your spouse, your kids, your neighbors, or anyone push you around or walk all over you. This does not mean you need to be a butt-hole - but you may need to draw some clear lines for the people in your life. Want to do it right? Communicate expectations clearly, and consistently. People cannot treat you the way you want them to treat you unless you tell them HOW to treat you.
— Josh Hatcher, Manlihood: The 12 Pillars of Masculinity
My Aunt Helen was my favorite person in the whole world. She was my mom’s sister. She got straight A’s when she was a teenager and she used to give me books to read. My father said that the books were a little too old for me, but I liked them so he just shrugged and let me read.
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
I appreciate your thinking on me, marshal, but ain’t no trouble of his what ain’t trouble of mine, too.
— J.D.  Jordan, Calamity: Being an Account of Calamity Jane and Her Gunslinging Green Man
The secret to loving relationships is to never give more love than you have for yourself.
— Tice Davids aka David T. Parker
But relying on one person for your every need is so dangerous. One set of hands isn't enough to keep you from falling
— Sarah Addison Allen, Lost Lake
Baggage? Who are you talking to? I am the Maharajah of baggage. I could fly to the moon and back and never have to do laundry.
— P.J. Patterson
Love isn't just what you feel for someone when you look at them. It's how they make you feel about yourself when they look back at you.
— Priya Sharma, Fabulous Beasts
Fool! Never wait on a man! Let him wait on himself!
— V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic
Between any two beings there is a unique, uncrossable distance, an unenterable sanctuary. Sometimes it takes the shape of aloneness. Sometimes it takes the shape of love.
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Here I Am
An abuser isn't abusive 24/7. They usually demonstrate positive character traits most of the time. That's what makes the abuse so confusing when it happens, and what makes leaving so much more difficult.
— Miya Yamanouchi
people need me. I fillthem. if they can't see mefor awhile the get desperate, they getsick.but if I see them too oftenI get sick. it's hard to feedwithout getting fed.
— Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell
Sometimes love doesn't look like what we think it should look like. Sometimes it's paradoxical. Sometimes we have to step outside our comfort zone. Sometimes we have to be more honest than we thought we'd ever have to be or more supportive than we are taught is appropriate. When we traverse those boundaries, that's when we really understand what this whole love thing is all about. We become more than just human. We become part of the giant, beautiful ever-changing reality of life. By loving without limits, we become wise, strong, and beautiful. We become more of what we already are.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Because our love is more than something I can wear. Our time is far greater than what can be counted by two hands and some numbers. Because, even without it, I still have you.
— Elise Kova, Crystal Crowned
Real relationships are the product of time spent, which is why so many of us have so few of them.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Vulnerability creates unimaginable space to build each other up, as much as it creates ample room to tear each other down.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
No, when you love someone you spend hours and hours with them, and even the mightiest forces in the netherworld could not say whether the hours you spend increase your love or if you simply spend more hours with someone as your love increases.
— Daniel Handler, Adverbs
You can't forge a relationship with learned helplessness, you can only force one and it will always be tenuous. There is always the possibility the peregrine will rediscover the strength of his heart.
— Rebecca K. O'Connor, Lift
Loving and working relationships bring so much joy into our lives! We need to work on our relationships like a garden; toiling the soil for a solid foundation, planting the seeds to slowly grow into a flower, daily water and weeding to maintain growth, and making adjustments when the relationship is in full bloom. Sadly, there are times when the plot of land dries up, nothing will grow, and it’s time to move on. Our dreams of the nighttime can be used as maintenance in all our relationships.
— Pamela Cummins, Learn the Secret Language of Dreams
When he had promised himself that he wouldn't try to repair Jude, he had forgotten that to solve someone is to want to repair them: to diagnose a problem and then not try to fix that problem seemed not only neglectful but immoral.
— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
Betrayal is advancing myself at the expense of the one who I committed myself to advance.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The Scotchman seemed hardly the same Farfrae who had danced with her, and walked with her, in a delicate poise between love and friendship - that period in the history of a love when alone it can be said to be unalloyed with pain.
— Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
The police are required to enforce the law in areas where they do not live, do not eat, do not go to the barbershop. They have no interaction with the people in that community except when they are called to resolve an issue. To bridge the gap we must establish relationships with the people and communities we serve. If we don’t we will continue to have biases that grow and fester and create deadly situations.
— Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
It's not that he was flirting, unless flirting was just about wanting to really see someone. People thought that someone like him — good-looking, young, cool clothes — was going to be dismissive, and when he wasn't, when he was just easy and open with them, they glowed. It was a feeling he tried to re-create a hundred times a day, in every interaction. It also calmed him. If he looked at someone and they looked at him and there was a true connection, no matter how brief, then it meant that he didn't need to replay the encounter anxiously afterwards, trying to find where it had all gone wrong.
— Jade Chang, The Wangs vs. the World
When there is deep love the heart breathes sentimental sighs.
— Bluenscottish
He thought she knew what he meant, but the biggest mistake you can make is thinking they know what you mean.
— Daniel Handler, Adverbs
Doing what you love, with those you love, is an adventurous type of success. The kind that can not be taken away, often discovered by those who have had much taken away, and saw it as an opportunity to re-access their path, and reset from the crucible of shared and beneficial dreams.
— Tom Althouse, The Frowny Face Cow
I cannot live without you. For to attempt to do so would be to rob both of us of each other, and that is thievery of the greatest sort.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
What rubs off on me is hard to rub off. So, I’d better figure out what I rubbing up against.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Humankind has turned to world into a cruel and inhospitable place. The thing that makes it all bearable is the potential for loving companionship.
— Christopher Earle
An artwork could always be restored and sold with no depreciated value―the cracks and tears provide more character, But when it comes to human emotions, how far could you stretch your heart to let go of the pain?
— Geraldine Solon, The Portrait
It's easy to be with someone who is completely different from you, but difficult when that person holds starkly different opinions from you.
— Tarang Sinha
If being in a relationship never causes you any grief, consider that maybe while you might physically be ‘in’ the relationship; mentally and emotionally you may have ‘checked out’ of the relationship. Relationships take an active presence in order to actually ‘be’ relationships. You can’t ‘care’ without caring and caring isn’t just for sunny days.
— Akiroq Brost
The cruelest thing is love that leads us to deal with the parts of ourselves that we do not want to see, and this is what, in fact, we do not forgive each other.
— Luigina Sgarro
Love is a country, with closed borders and a language no foreigner can speak. The only people who can understand its customs, traditions, and history are its citizens. A relationship doesn’t have to make sense to all people. It only has to make sense to two people.
— Jillian Keenan, Sex with Shakespeare: Here's Much to Do with Pain, but More with Love
Chose the person who respects you rather than the one who loves you. Cuz Love depends on the other person. Respect depend on how you act.
— Hiroshana Jayamal
Sometimes bonds are very simple.We don't want to care about the people who don't care about us.
— Hiroshana Jayamal
It is easy to hurt people when we do not filter our thoughts, when we do not choose our words, when we do not control the tone of voice and the body language.
— Saif Samir
Have the courage to love yourself like you always wished someone would.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Sometimes, to love people, I must completely avoid them. Sometimes, to be strong, I must completely fall apart. Sometimes, to create, I must completely destroy.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Loving yourself isn't just about celebrating your accomplishments and nurturing your talents. Those things are nice, sure. But that's not how we know others love us. We know others love us when they see us with our face on the ground, crying and weak, feeling like we've got nothing to offer the world—and they smile, and they reach out, and they love us anyway. Loving yourself is what you do when you fail, when you don't know, when you screw up, when you forget, when you lose everything. Loving yourself is what you do when you can't approve of what you've done. Loving yourself is what you do when you're not sure if it's going to get better. Loving yourself is what you must do in those moments when you can't like yourself. Real love is when you reach out for no good reason at all, except to love.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Convince people that you need them, and watch what they do.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
We are not defined by our individual loneliness, but by the web of relationships in which we’re enmeshed.
— Ken Liu, Mono no Aware
If we learn to be responsible for our own emotions, thoughts, and needs, then we can see other people for who they are as opposed to what they can do for us.
— Vironika Tugaleva
From Louisiana, he followed the hyphens in the road that blurred together toward a faraway place, bridging unrelated things as hyphens do.
— Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
At times even the best are not good enough.
— Gina Wings, Secrets of a Perfect Hair Color: Adventures of an Urban Woman
They were a couple in a way that didn't exclude anyone but seemed superior to every other relationship in the room.
— Melissa Bank, The Wonder Spot
Up until that moment, I'd been at the earliest stage of love, when you feel it will turn you into the person you want to be. Now, his gentle voice and sage advice took me to a later stage: I felt I needed to pretend to be a better person than I was so he'd keep loving me. This was hard because it made me hate him.
— Melissa Bank, The Wonder Spot
There are things that two people say in the middle of the night That don't make sense to a third at breakfast.
— Melissa Bank, The Wonder Spot
For you born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word"- Catherine Drinker Bowen
— Yvonne Finn, Getting From Hello To Forever Together
Strong personal relationships are characterised by an ability and willingness to do each other favors. Strive to put family first, then your social circle, and back off on efforts to be a social media superstar.
— Mark Sisson, Primal Blueprint 21-Day Total Body Transformation: A Step-by-Step, Gene Reprogramming Action Plan
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
— Frank Herbert, Dune
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
— Arthur C. Clarke
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
— Confucius, Confucius: The Analects
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak they are but the instruments of the wise. 
— Samuel Lover, Rory O'More
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
— Helen Keller
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.
— George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
— Jim Rohn
You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.
— Jim Rohn
I cannot let the fear of the past color the future.
— Julie Kagawa, The Eternity Cure
Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
— Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.
— Denis Waitley
You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.
— Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
First say to yourself what you would beand then do what you have to do. 
— Epictetus
LAW 46Never Appear Too PerfectAppearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. Envy creates silent enemies. It is smart to occasionally display defects, and admit to harmless vices, in order to deflect envy and appear more human and approachable. Only gods and the dead can seem perfect with impunity.
— Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
— Ann Landers
Everything is hard before it is easy
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
...yelling doesn't make a thing any more possible.
— Angie Sage, Queste
It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.
— Sinclair Lewis
The discontent and frustration that you feel is entirely your own creation.
— Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
Sometimes it's worth lingering on the journey for a while before getting to the destination.
— Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell
When you concentrate your energy purposely on the future possibility that you aspire to realize, your energy is passed on to it and makes it attracted to you with a force stronger than the one you directed towards it.
— Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.
— Anthony Robbins
Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up.
— Stephen Hawking
Do what you think is right. Don't let people make the decision of right or wrong for you.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
— Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
Times will change for the better when you change.
— Maxwell Maltz
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose
— Leonardo da Vinci
The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.
— Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way
We can't undo a single thing we have ever done, but we can make decisions today that propel us to the life we want and towards the healing we need.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.
— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.
— Bill Watterson
Ever Tried. Ever Failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
— Samuel Beckett
Grateful souls focus on the happiness and abundance present in their lives and this in turn attracts more abundance and joy towards them.
— Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
Never allow your mind to wander untamed like a wild animal that exists on the basis of survival of the fittest. Tame your mind with consistent focus on your goals and desires.
— Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
Manifesting is a lot like making a cake. The things needed are supplied by you, the mixing is done by your mind and the baking is done in the oven of the universe.
— Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
Now is the time to get serious about living your ideals. How long can you afford to put off who you really want to be? Your nobler self cannot wait any longer. Put your principles into practice – now. Stop the excuses and the procrastination. This is your life! You aren’t a child anymore. The sooner you set yourself to your spiritual program, the happier you will be. The longer you wait, the more you’ll be vulnerable to mediocrity and feel filled with shame and regret, because you know you are capable of better. From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do – now.
— Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
‎By reacting from fear instead of responding from love, you inject poison directly into the veins of your relationship.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity and fear of others. Never decide to do nothing just because you can only do little. Do what you can. You would be surprised at what "little" acts have done for our world.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can, there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.
— Sarah Caldwell
Look around you. Everything changes. Everything on this earth is in a continuous state of evolving, refining, improving, adapting, enhancing…changing. You were not put on this earth to remain stagnant.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Reading the Bible will help you get to know the word, but it’s when you put it down and live your life that you get to know the author.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
A very small percentage of the people in this world will actually experience and live today. So many people will be stuck on another day, another time that traumatized them and caused them to spiritually stutter so they miss out on this day.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
I hope you find true meaning, contentment, and passion in your life. I hope you navigate the difficult times and come out with greater strength and resolve. I hope you find whatever balance you seek with your eyes wide open. And I hope that you - yes, you - have the ambition to lean in to your career and run the world. Because the world needs you to change it.
— Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
A smile is the best way to get oneself out of a tight spot, even if it is a fake one. Surprisingly enough, everyone takes it at face value. I read that in a book.""If you keep staring at me, I'll hit you.""I only became part of your team recently when I replaced Sasuke, so I don't know everything that's going on. I don't really understand people either. But even I can tell that Naruto really loves you. Naruto's been shouldering that promise for a long time...I think he means to shoulder it for the rest of his life. I don't know what you said to him, but it's just like what's been done to me - it feels like a curse. Sasuke causes Naruto pain, but I think you do too.""Sasuke is only helping spread his darkness across the world. Letting him live will only sow the seeds of another war. He's just another criminal now. Sasuke lost all hope of coming back when his group, Akatsuki, attacked our village. Your fellow Konoha shinobi would never accept him now. Sakura's not stupid, either. She understands the position he's put us all in. That's why she came out here, to tell you herself.
— Masashi Kishimoto
You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right
— Jack Canfield
Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.
— Diana, Princess of Wales
The purpose of fear is to raise your awareness not to stop your progress.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
When you do what you love, the seemingly impossible becomes simply challenging, the laborious becomes purposeful resistance, the difficult loses its edge and is trampled by your progress.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
How would your life be different if…You stopped focusing on what you didn’t want and started focusing on what you do want? Let today be the day…You establish a clear intent, make a plan, and take actions towards your intent.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
You know you're doing what you love when Sunday nights feel the same as Friday nights....
— Donny Deutsch, Donny Deutsch's Big Idea: How To Make Your Entrepreneurial Dreams Come True, From The AHA Moment To Your First Million
The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
— Ann Richards
The moment you become friends with your inner Self, you realize that the failures or hindrances that you met earlier were caused more by your disconnected status with your inner Being.
— Stephen Richards, Develop Jedi Self-Confidence: Unleash the Force within You
The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it.
— John Lubbock, Peace and Happiness
If you do whatever it takes to accomplish your goals to live the life you desire, It will be worth it. I promise! But if you find some excuse to justify quitting your journey, you will regret it. This is also a promise!" -gbb
— Glenn Brandon Burke
I can’t think of anything more disheartening than living a life without a clear purpose.
— Daniel Willey
Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them. And I shall dare to say this also, that to have them and always to observe them is injurious, and that to appear to have them is useful; to appear merciful, faithful, humane, religious, upright, and to be so, but with a mind so framed that should you require not to be so, you may be able and know how to change to the opposite.
— Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
The best way to succeed is to have a specific Intent, a clear Vision, a plan of Action, and the ability to maintain Clarity. Those are the Four Pillars of Success. It never fails!
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth diminishing your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
When was the last time you woke up and realized that today could be the best day of your life?
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?
— Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
Sometimes we forget about our own advantages because we focus on what we don't have. Just because you have to work a little harder at something that seems easier to others doesn't mean you're without your own talents.
— Chris Colfer, The Wishing Spell
Today is yours to shape. Create a masterpiece!
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.
— Sidney Poitier, The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
If you intend to change, decide what you want and live your life accordingly.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Search for contentment in each person you meet.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Change is the parent of progress.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Today stretches ahead of you waiting to be shaped. You are the sculptor who gets to do the shaping. What today will be like is up to you.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
The first place where self-esteem begins its journey is within us.
— Stephen Richards, Boost Your Self Esteem
Your feelings wouldn't get hurt if you were honest with yourself
— Ty Gray
Although I deeply love oceans, deserts and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty. They keep me continuously wanting to know more, feel more, see more.
— Victoria Erickson
You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
— Henry Ford
How would your life be different if...You were conscious about the food you ate, the people you surround yourself with, and the media you watch, listen to, or read? Let today be the day...You pay attention to what you feed your mind, your body, and your life. Create a nourishing environment conducive to your growth and well-being today.
— Steve Maraboli, The Power of One
The only easy day was yesterday.
— US Navy SEALs
You can lose your MONEY. You can lose your FRIENDS. You can lose your JOB and you can lose your MARRIAGE...and still recover...as long as there is HOPE. Never lose HOPE.
— John Paul Warren
You're never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready.
— Flora Rheta Schreiber, Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
Sometimes you're drowning yourself in your own words.
— Steve Maraboli
Because when we give too many fucks, when we choose to give a fuck about everything, then we feel as though we are perpetually entitled to feel comfortable and happy at all times, that’s when life fucks us.
— Mark  Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
Never confuse someone else's inability to do something with its inability to be done.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Live life with a purpose and live it full out.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never see anything.
— Franz Kafka, The Castle
It is not enough if you just live life as it comes to you like a floating leaf in a pond. Make use of the powers bestowed in you and soar like an eagle.
— Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
The price tag you put on yourself decides your worth. Underestimating yourself will cost you dearly.
— Apoorve Dubey
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
— Napoleon Hill
Do not compromise yourself and put your goodness in the same impermanent category as whatever circumstance happening. Be the best you in every circumstance.
— Steve Maraboli
Don't be one of those who don't want others to be empowered. Share information. Try to make the next person, smarter.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
The lust for comfort kills the passions of the soul.
— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.
— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
Without desires and dreams, your thoughts do not matter and you can think whatever you want to.
— Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest accomplishment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
— Leo Buscaglia
Write this down: My life is full of unlimited possibilities.
— Pablo
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
— Henry Ford
You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.
— Edmund Hillary, High Adventure
The problem isn’t that I think so highly of myself. It is just that you think so little of yourself. Live life BIG, BOLD and OUT LOUD!
— Shannon L. Alder
Have you had a failure or rejection? You could get bitter. That's one way to deal with it. Or...you could just get BETTER. What do you think?
— Destiny Booze
We are mathematical equations where your life is the sum of all choices you've made until now. The good news is you can change the equation so that you start making a difference in your life.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
— Zig Ziglar
Leave your excuses and live your dreams!
— Paul F. Davis
A good self-esteem level is mostly dependant on how we value ourselves without any bias.
— Stephen Richards, Boost Your Self Esteem
You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, nothing else. Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care. If you do what other successful people do, you will enjoy the same results and rewards that they do. And if you don't, you won't.
— Brian Tracy, Focal Point: A Proven System to Simplify Your Life, Double Your Productivity, and Achieve All Your Goals
A person today who seems to have a great sense of self-esteem has his or her childhood days to thank for it.
— Stephen Richards, Boost Your Self Esteem
Your limits are somewhere up there, waiting for you to reach beyond infinity.
— Arnold Henry
Once we open our eyes to the infinite magic that the universe has in abundance, we are sure to be enthralled by what we see and this miraculous creation gets us closer to our dreams and to the world as a whole.
— Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
We have come here together so that you might know, through virtue of your own pain, your own hopelessness, your own fear, your own darkness and the lie of powerlessness, the very actual power of your own will, of the will of your soul.
— Jennifer DeLucy
It will be better to spent our energy on reality; the tangible facts, not thoughts of the past.
— Durgesh Satpathy, Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory
Let your action manifest your thought, your belief and your passion.
— Mohammed Ali Bapir
Being in home is like magic moments, in a magic world, among maicians
— Durgesh Satpathy, Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory
You don't have to be good at something to be liked.
— Stephen Richards
12--Lose Battles, But Win The War: Grand StrategyGrand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.
— Robert Greene, The 33 Strategies of War
Every sunrise is priceless and you can experience the richness that life holds only when you live life to the full instead of just being an onlooker.
— Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
How would your life be different if...you began each day by thanking someone who has helped you? Let today be the day...You make it a point to show your gratitude to others. Send a letter or card, make a call, send a text or email, tell them in person...do whatever you have to do to let them know you appreciate them.
— Steve Maraboli, The Power of One
Life’s a marathon, not a sprint.
— Phillip C. McGraw
Every challenge you encounter in life is a fork in the road. You have the choice to choose which way to go - backward, forward, breakdown or breakthrough.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha, Overcoming the Challenges of Life
Let today be the day that you become committed in being, in doing, in getting, achieving, in experiencing. Let today be the day that you are committed to being the change you wish to see and living the life you wish to live.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
There has never been a meaningful life built on easy street.
— John Paul Warren
Prepared for the worst,but still praying for the best
— Lil Wayne
When the going gets tough, the tough get going
— Billy Joel
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you always got.
— James P. Lewis, Working Together: 12 Principles for Achieving Excellence in Managing Projects, Teams, and Organizations
But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from "best.
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
Whatever you lay your hands on, self-esteem is visible.
— Stephen Richards, Boost Your Self Esteem
Once you feel nice about yourself, you have planted the first seed to develop self-confidence.
— Stephen Richards, Develop Jedi Self-Confidence: Unleash the Force within You
Time waits for no one.
— Yasutaka Tsutsui
You can only work on yourself. Start there.
— Alice O. Howell
The mind can't delete what the heart won't let go of.
— Peggy Toney Horton, Stop the World and Get Off
Something hit me very hard once, thinking about what one little man could do. Think of the Queen Mary — the whole ship goes by and then comes the rudder. And there's a tiny thing at the edge of the rudder called a trimtab.It's a miniature rudder. Just moving the little trim tab builds a low pressure that pulls the rudder around. Takes almost no effort at all. So I said that the little individual can be a trimtab. Society thinks it's going right by you, that it's left you altogether. But if you're doing dynamic things mentally, the fact is that you can just put your foot out like that and the whole big ship of state is going to go.So I said, call me Trimtab.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
I can’t help you, I can only guide you, and you are the one who can help yourself.
— Durgesh Satpathy, Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory
The realisation that limitations are imaginary will make you strong and overpowering.
— Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
We are exactly what our history made us to be.
— Stephen Richards, Boost Your Self Esteem
For us to regard others as worthy, we have to begin by regarding ourselves as worthy.
— Stephen Richards, Boost Your Self Esteem
Self-confidence is contagious.
— Stephen Richards
I must admit, that I have learned more from my negative experiences than I have ever learned from my positive one.
— John Paul Warren
With one kind gesture you can change a life. One person at a time you can change the world. One day at a time we can change everything.
— Steve Maraboli, The Power of One
Don't use yesterday's state of mind, to make today's decision.
— C. Nzingha Smith, Lust Have Recipes, Aphrodisiac Cookbook
Faith UP! Your purpose is GREATER than all your PROBLEMS.
— John Paul Warren
The future is greatly different than your life now, the actions that you take must also be greatly different. You cannot do the same thing and get something different.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
When someone who is suffering looks to you for compassion, it's indeed a blessing; you are chosen to be their Light in a moment of sorrow.
— Michelle Cruz-Rosado
I would rather live short and right then long and wrong.
— John Paul Warren
We need to send our words out in the direction we want them to go. In other words, we need to start talking victory when we’re staring at defeat. We need to start talking healing when we’re feeling sick. We need to start blessing and prosperity when we don’t have anything. We need to speak about marching when we feel like quitting.
— Jentezen Franklin, Believe That You Can: Moving with Faith and Tenacity to the Dream God Has Given You
Fear has the role we give it. We are able to empower or poison ourselves to whatever degree we want. This is the beauty of our design.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
There are two things essential if you want to enhance your Jedi self-confidence: 1/ belief that it is possible 2/ that self-help is the best help
— Stephen Richards, Develop Jedi Self-Confidence: Unleash the Force within You
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
— Jerome
Every great leader can take you back to a defining moment when they decided to lead
— John Paul Warren
Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.
— John Muir, John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings
Do the things you used to talk about doing but never did. Know when to let go and when to hold on tight. Stop rushing. Don't be intimidated to say it like it is. Stop apologizing all the time. Learn to say no, so your yes has some oomph. Spend time with the friends who lift you up, and cut loose the ones who bring you down. Stop giving your power away. Be more concerned with being interested than being interesting. Be old enough to appreciate your freedom, and young enough to enjoy it. Finally know who you are.
— Kristin Armstrong
The difference between being mediocre and achieving excellence is you.
— Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
A failure is always in the passenger seat in his or her life.
— Stephen Richards, Boost Your Self Esteem
You be as angry as you need to be," she said. "Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma, not your dad, no one. And if you need to break things, then by God, you break them good and 
— Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
Pursue your goal. Opinions be damned.
— Stacy Verdick Case
A Master Jedi feels emotions, but they do not allow them to influence their reasoning. Yoda told Luke that he would know the good from the bad when he was 'calm, at peace.
— Stephen Richards, Develop Jedi Self-Confidence: Unleash the Force within You
Certain situations need a Jedi-like approach. One of these is when you are in a strange environment, usually where you feel unsure of yourself. You would be surprised how, if you walk with confidence and meaning, people will see this as a mark of confidence, yet you are perhaps shaking inside but outwardly you have the gait of a confident Jedi Knight.
— Stephen Richards, Develop Jedi Self-Confidence: Unleash the Force within You
Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.
— Ernest Shackleton
When something poses as obstacle to you,surmount it and use it as a miracle to move on to greater height.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha, Overcoming the Challenges of Life
Love is perhaps the only emotions that is boundless
— Santosh Avvannavar, Umbilical Cord
When in doubt, throw doubt out and have a little faith....
— E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
The difference between those who adapted and those who didn't, Gorton said, was a willingness to totally commit.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
If the painter wishes to see beauties that charm him, it lies in his power to create them, and if he wishes to see monstrosities that are frightful, ridiculous, or truly pitiable, he is lord and God thereof.
— Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardo's Notebooks
Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
— Harold Geneen
Jedi act with confidence, move with confidence, and breathe with confidence. Jedi possess a confident calmness in their looks, attitude andbehaviour.
— Stephen Richards
Positive belief in yourself will give you the energy needed to conquer the world and this belief is the power behind all creation.
— Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
Changes are inevitable and not always controllable. What can be controlled is how you manage, react to and work through the change process.
— Kelly A. Morgan
Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
— Orison Swett Marden
A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
A true dreamer is one who knows how to navigate in the dark”.
— John Paul Warren
Though money cannot acquire you happiness, it does not mean that both money and happiness cannot exist together.
— Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
A barrier is a limitation only when you perceive it as one.
— Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
Winning is great, but if it's not enough then then you'll never have enough!
— Stephen Richards
Whatever belief we have actually stems from the thankfulness that we feel and this feeling further attracts more happy feelings towards us.
— Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
The madder it makes you, the harder you need to laugh at it.
— Destiny Booze
Your self-confidence is simply the part of your brain that tells you whether or not you should try something different or new or believe in yourself, and just as a Jedi truly believes that it is within their power to control their thoughts and stay in the Light, so can you.
— Stephen Richards, Develop Jedi Self-Confidence: Unleash the Force within You
On the other hand, if the future is not the one you chose then you may have to use your willpower to obtain the future of your liking.
— Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
A story meant to motivate all and sundry irrespective of their circumstances
— Santosh Avvannavar, She: Ekla Cholo Re
One should measure their life by the faith they embrace and the relationships they cherish
— John Paul Warren
You’ve got one life, one shot, and all the power to make it happen. Get ready to dream big and live big. It’s all up to you. And it starts now.
— Jolene Stockman, Total Blueprint for World Domination
A cord that remains, always. in many ways...
— Santosh Avvannavar
I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.
— Courtney Love
Most people know the physical senses, but a lot of people don’t know the soul’s senses: empathy, trust, intuition, love and harmony
— Steven Aitchison
One thing I have learned from many years of watching my father is that some people, the best ones, are motivated more by the chance to prove themselves than by a command to serve. It is the work itself that calls them onward, especially if they believe they are the only ones who can do it.
— Rae Carson, The Shadow Cats
When life's got you down, keep your head up... you can't see the ground anyway
— Nicole  Rae
If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
— Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone
Strength wasn‘t about being able to do everything alone. Strength was knowing when to ask for help and not being too proud to do it.
— Karen Marie Moning, Dreamfever
In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion,'" she repeats, making sure of it. If she had paper and pencil, it wouldn't surprise me if she wrote it down. "So what does that really mean? In simple terms." I think it over. It takes me a while to gather my thoughts, but she waits patiently. "I think it means," I say, "that chance encounters are what keep us going. In simple terms.
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
The world is my church. My actions are my prayer. My behavior is my creed.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
I have learned that the harder you fall…the higher you bounce!
— John Paul Warren
Today, you have the opportunity to transcend from a disempowered mindset of existence to an empowered reality of purpose-driven living. Today is a new day that has been handed to you for shaping. You have the tools, now get out there and create a masterpiece.
— Steve Maraboli, The Power of One
Have faith in the universe and its capability to lead you to the path of abundance.
— Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might after all never be spoken. An overwhelming longing to rest and remain at peace by Bilbo's side in Rivendell filled all his heart. At last with an effort he spoke, and wondered to hear his own words, as if some other will was using his small voice. "I will take the Ring," he said, "though I do not know the way.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
I may not be where I want to be, but if I stop now, I'll NEVER get where I'm going!
— Laura  Lynch, Mistakes Happen: An Historical Guide to Overcoming Adversity
Coming to the END of MYSELF and all SELF effort...seems to be the very point that God steps in and shows HIMSELF to be more than ENOUGH.
— John Paul Warren
Pain? Yes, of course. Racing without pain is not racing. But the pleasure of being ahead outweighed the pain a million times over. To hell with the pain. What's six minutes of pain compared to the pain they're going to feel for the next six months or six decades. You never forget your wins and losses in this sport. YOU NEVER FORGET.
— Brad Alan Lewis, Assault on Lake Casitas
Choice forms the divider which is responsible for the formation of all futures that can be possible.
— Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free
If the world is a book, are you the hero, or just a walk-on part?
— K.J. Parker, The Hammer