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I knew who I was now. I had figured out how to love myself. And more and more each day, I was learning to be myself in the world. Life felt completely different, like I was sipping the perfection of a made-to-order drink that was exactly what I had imagined. As I looked up at the stars right then, I found myself saying, “This is what it was supposed to be like all along.
— Stephen Lovegrove, How to Find Yourself, Love Yourself, & Be Yourself: The Secret Instruction Manual for Being Human
The biggest mistake people make in life is trying to be someone else. They never find themselves, so they never love themselves. Instead they find somebody else who they like a lot and try to be them.
— Stephen Lovegrove, How to Find Yourself, Love Yourself, & Be Yourself: The Secret Instruction Manual for Being Human
You have not been given the task of creating something brand new from the vast world around you. All you are called to do is discover what is inside of you right now, the life you have been given. Once you find that, you can begin creating something external that aligns with and affirms your spark.
— Stephen Lovegrove, How to Find Yourself, Love Yourself, & Be Yourself: The Secret Instruction Manual for Being Human
The wisdom of hindsight would reveal that I had no clue how to find myself, no idea how to love myself, and no ability to be myself. Mix all of those three dilemmas, and you’ve created a cocktail that will knock anyone out. Even though I couldn’t name those specific issues that night, I did own where I was to the best of my ability. That’s often all we can do in a crisis. So that night, I looked myself in the eyes and said, “It isn’t supposed to be this way.
— Stephen Lovegrove, How to Find Yourself, Love Yourself, & Be Yourself: The Secret Instruction Manual for Being Human
I couldn’t stop crying. This fact in and of itself alarmed me, because for so long, I hadn’t been able to cry. And now, here I was, weeping. It didn’t feel therapeutic. I know scientists promise that all the negative hormones are being released as you cry, but I didn’t notice my emotional stability rising as the tears fell. I just knew I was crying, and my whole body was shaking, and I couldn’t make it stop.
— Stephen Lovegrove, How to Find Yourself, Love Yourself, & Be Yourself: The Secret Instruction Manual for Being Human
I felt like a disappointment. I believed I had let my family down. Clearly, I was a screw-up. I couldn’t do anything right. It seemed I hurt people without even trying. I didn’t know better, but obviously, that proved I was stupid. I was so blind to what I was saying …. These were the kinds of thoughts going through my mind. And that was my first experience with shame. Huge difference.
— Stephen Lovegrove, How to Find Yourself, Love Yourself, & Be Yourself: The Secret Instruction Manual for Being Human
People grow when they are loved well. If you want to help others heal, love them without an agenda.
— Mike McHargue
Discipline is giving yourself a command and following it up with action
— Bob Proctor
Don't work for appraisal or appreciation, work for your personal growth
— Sivaprakash Sidhu
Will gives us the ability to take an idea hold that idea and zero right in on something
— Bob Proctor
A sure way to go broke is to spend your outer riches before you have saved enough of your inner ones.
— Charles F. Glassman
You and I have the decision to decide what we are going to be with our life! Or we can let the paradigm control us and march along in lockstep type fashion.
— Bob Proctor
As soon as you see the need to change your partner to save the relationship, it is then time to end it.
— Charles F. Glassman
As you see the need to change your partner to save the relationship, it is then time to end it.
— Charles F. Glassman
Nothing great was ever achieved without a personal sacrifice.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Jesus doesn’t make up the difference. Jesus makes all the difference. Grace is not about filling gaps. It is about filling us.
— Brad Wilcox
You will never learn to fly unless you jump!
— Weston L. Blair, Vision of Opportunity
I am so often the architect of my own pain and the engineer of my own failures.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Every difficulty is an opportunity for personal growth.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Accomplishment of your dreams demand personal sacrifice and hard work.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Change isn't always comfortable, but it always teaches us something of utmost importance – usually about ourselves – and we become better people for it.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
Growth can't be constrained when the journey unfolds naturally and we are open to possibility and unfamiliar paths.
— Bridget Geegan Blanton
There are handful of moments in your life when you'll be challenged to choose between what you really want and what you believe is possible. These are the moments which will shape both your destiny AND who you will become.
— Seth Czerepak
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
— Sahithi Setikam, A Quick Journey From Being Single to Somebody's World
If your comfort zone is misery, it's time to get uncomfortable.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
The most common mistake you'll make is forgetting to keep your own scorecard. Very little at work reinforces your ability to do this, so you will have to be vigilant. When evaluators give you an assessment, they are just guessing at who you are; they certainly are not the ones who know your potential. They can rate you and influence you, but they don't get to define you. That's your most honorable assignment: to define, every day through the way you deliver your work, the scope and nature of your inherent abilities.
— Charlotte Beers, I'd Rather Be in Charge: A Legendary Business Leader's Roadmap for Achieving Pride, Power, and Joy at Work
People have worried about things for centuries, but it has never once had a positive effect on the outcome of a situation.
— Lisa M. Schab, The Anxiety Workbook for Teens: Activities to Help You Deal with Anxiety and Worry
Growth usually starts with awareness. Something happens in your life and you realize there is something to do about it. Sometimes it is when you become exhausted of your old habits where you then observe all the dislikes in your life and you begin living more consciously. You realize that you have a choice in every matter. That your life becomes that which you focus on and that at any time you can assert your personal will power to become what you want to be and not become what the outside circumstances may attempt to mold you into.
— Jason Micheal Ratliff
Be patient with yourself.The journey of life requires alot of patient, persistence and perseverance.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Affectation is really a question of heart motive. Growing into a persona is an essential part of maturing. Anything you might choose to do is going to contribute to one persona or another. People will only call attention to it if it is markedly different from the course you were apparently on before.
— N.D. Wilson, The Rhetoric Companion
There may be a day when you find yourself standing at the precipice, looking down into the abyss of hopelessness and waiting, pleading, begging for someone who has been in this place before to come alongside you and show you the way back to hope.
— J. Loren Norris
Take a daily action towards the achievement of your desired goals.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Most good decisions that a person make are a result of reflection and the will to change.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
Once you see how every moment of your life and every choice you make matters and that you can truly do no wrong, you will have fulfilled your purpose."– Divinely Guided Success: Discover The Missing Piece To Reveal Your Destiny
— Leah Levkowitz
All leadership begins from inside a person and must be developed and grown as they grow into emerging and enduring leaders
— Thomas Narofsky, F(X) Leadership Unleashed!
I had the strangest feeling-like I had lost something without ever really having it in the first place-that i wasn't what I once was, and wasn't at all what I was meant to be.
— Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds
To attain true inner freedom, you must be able to objectively watch your problems instead of being lost in them... Once you've made the commitment to free yourself of the scared person inside, you will notice that there is a clear decision point at which your growth takes place.
— Michael A. Singer, The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
I want to share my story, and I want to know yours. I believe with all my heart that sharing our stories, the real, ugly, broken ones, is one of the most powerful things in the world, because to share our story we must first accept it. We must own it. We must stop running from it or shoving it into the corner when company comes over. To share our story is to admit that we've been changed.
— Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith
In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them. One way or another we are living the stories planted in us early or along the way, we are also living the stories we planted - knowingly or unknowingly - in ourselves. We live the stories that either give our lives meaning, or negate it with meaninglessness. If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change or lives.
— Ben Okri, A Way of Being Free
How many ills, how many infirmities, does man owe to his excesses, his ambition – in a word, to the indulgence of his various passions! He who should live soberly in all respects, who should never run into excesses of any kind, who should be always simple in his tastes, modest in his desires, would escape a large proportion of the tribulations of human life. It is the same with regard to spirit-life, the sufferings of which are always the consequence of the manner in which a spirit has lived upon the earth. In that life undoubtedly he will no longer suffer from gout or rheumatism; but his wrong-doing down here will cause him to experience other sufferings no less painful. We have seen that those sufferings are the result of the links which exist between a spirit and matter; that the more completely he is freed from the influence of matter – in other words, the more dematerialized he is – the fewer are the painful sensations experienced by him. It depends, therefore, on each of us to free ourselves from the influence of matter by our action in this present life. Man possesses free-will, and, consequently, the power of electing to do or not to do. Let him conquer his animal passions; let him rid himself of hatred, envy, jealousy, pride; let him throw off the yoke of selfishness; let him purify his soul by cultivating noble sentiments; let him do good; let him attach to the things of this world only the degree of importance which they deserve – and he will, even under his present corporeal envelope, have effected his purification, and achieved his deliverance from the influence of matter, which will cease for him on his quitting that envelope. For such a one the remembrance of physical sufferings endured by him in the life he has quitted has nothing painful, and produces no disagreeable impression, because they affected his body only, and left no trace in his soul. He is happy to be relieved from them; and the calmness of a good conscience exempts him from all moral suffering.
— Allan Kardec, The Spirits' Book
The benefit of personal growth and self-discovery is that we become better human beings with the strength to endure and carry on, and then we may experience something magical when we begin to reach out to others. We discover a feeling that is so rewarding and fulfilling: that fact that we can make a difference. Here is to your willingness to begin with making a difference with yourself!Michael James
— Michael     James, Discovering Michael: An Inspirational Guide to Personal Growth & Self-Discovery
I believe in beauty. I believe in goodness. I believe in the power of turning: the other cheek, time, curve of the earth.
— Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith
The Swimmer's Advantage:1)Your goal is measured first by seeing; The distance is accomplished by the strategy of believing that the same set of repetitious acts will get you there.2)Even when the elements around you are overwhelming, have the confidence to keep your head above the water. 3) Though at times you may not even see it, faith is knowing that the shore is always straight ahead. 4) By consistently reaching out over and over, you are bound to be rewarded by touching something worth more than when you started.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
The shortest and the hardest journey to make is the inner one.
— Omisona Fasina, Inner View - Choosing Authenticity
We need you.""I'm sorry, but I can't let that keep me here anymore.
— Ally Condie, Reached
It's the business of your life...and you're the CEO!
— Dr. Gala Gorman
Instead of going back and looking at the question, people tinker with the solution, trying to make it fit."-Claude Legrande..."The consequences of failing to do that [in our personal lives] are the same as those facing businesses - even more dire, perhaps, because what's being squandered isn't just the potential for profits. It's the potential for happiness. We miss opportunities to innovate and to make positive changes in our lives when we aren't willing to question ourselves.
— Amanda Lang, The Power Of Why: Simple Questions That Lead to Success
When we better ourselves we are improving our world!
— Isa Zapata
God has given us all our unique story. It's not one that flows easily or pretty, but the story is ours! Find it and treasure it...
— Deborah L. Parker, Navigating Life's Roadways: Stories of Insight from My Odyssey and Inspiration for Your Journey
Don't quit because it's hard. Quit because it's not hard enough
— Yoan Alexandrov
Fear and anxiety many times indicates that we are moving in a positive direction, out of the safe confines of our comfort zone, and in the direction of our true purpose.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
There is no fault, only responsibility.
— Rob Liano
...each of the painful "problems" in our lives contains valuable healing lessons. They teach us awareness and hopefully convince us to let go of our blind spots, prejudices, and tendencies to ignore our intuition and other growth lessons.
— Doreen Virtue, The Yo-Yo Diet Syndrome: How to Heal and Stabilize Your Appetite and Weight
I realize that I cannot say enough. So. Since I cannot say enough, at least I will avoid saying to much".
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
Anxiety, and the physical symptoms it causes, is merely fog along the path of independence and discovery.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
At that moment I knew without a doubt that God himself was speaking to me. He cared. He was there. He came to help even when I could not call out loud or explain my fear in words.
— Catherine Lawton, Journeys to Mother Love: Nine Women Tell Their Stories of Forgiveness & Healing
I think this is the essence of life: to be willing circle back, to fall in deeper, to relearn what I thought I already knew.
— Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith
Never be limited by others’ inability to think of you in terms big enough or dreams grand enough. Never allow yourself to define what is possible for you in your life by others’ limited vision of what they believe is possible for them in theirs.
— Judy M. Ford, The Light in Your Pocket: Illuminate Your Life in 140-Characters or Less
Acts of love, for me, are leaps of bravery.
— Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith
So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.
— Rainbow Rowell, Attachments
The biggest lie women tell themselves about men: When I get what I want, I will be happy.
— Shannon L. Alder
Love sticks around even when it has a lot to put up with.
— Chip Ingram, Spiritual Simplicity: How Loving More Means Doing Less
We can't get the power of will with a pill." -Serena Jade
— Serena Jade, Charismatic Connection: The Authentic Soul Mate Experience
Balance: a dance with how and when.
— Soul Dancer
The goal of our lives should be nothing less that becoming so familiar with the "mind of Christ" that we could write Jesus' speeches.
— Clare De Graaf, The 10-Second Rule: Following Jesus Made Simple
[The Rule:] Just do the next thing you're reasonably certain Jesus wants you to do.
— Clare De Graaf, The 10-Second Rule: Following Jesus Made Simple
As I stood behind you, I sensed that God was telling me to pay for your groceries, so I did. Simple as that.
— Clare De Graaf
Love says, "I'm with you, let's deal with it.
— Chip Ingram, Spiritual Simplicity: How Loving More Means Doing Less
Hopeless situations are never hopeless to God.
— Chip Ingram, Spiritual Simplicity: How Loving More Means Doing Less
[The 10-Second Rule's] power is in its simplicity, and yet it gets straight to the heart of what it means to actually follow Jesus.
— Clare De Graaf, The 10-Second Rule: Following Jesus Made Simple
...but thinking about it didn't do a thing. Thinking about it was a long dive into a bucket of shit that didn't have a bottom.
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Never joke about the job of your friend. He/she feeds their family with it and it affects their dignity!
— Rossana Condoleo
There comes a point when you begin to connect to the dots, when the chosen paths begin to mean something, when the picture starts to reveal itself. It is probably not at all what you had envisioned, but somewhere deep inside, perhaps you always knew. The journey was there for a reason. Its was there for you and for the others that have traveled along with you. The strength and comfort that comes from that awareness is amazing and beyond words. Once experienced, it becomes the biggest part of you. So let it unfold. Let your life reveal its lessons. Follow your heart, as it will not lead you astray. Find your passion and let its energy run through you in ways you have never experienced. With that, your real life will begin.
— Angela Bushman, A Soul's Journey Home
My life is on loan, like money borrowed from a bank. God is the lender, and He retains the right to call in the loan any time. Though I am responsible for taking care of it, I do not own this life; it is borrowed. Why should I fear its loss or the loss of anything else in this world when I must surrender it all anyway?
— James Dillehay, Overcoming the 7 Devils That Ruin Success
Freedom is something that you give yourself and no one else can ever take away.
— Angela Bushman, A Soul's Journey Home
Poetry is a connection to a change within you.
— Katerina Stoykova Klemer
If you simplify your life, quit chasing the wind, and be quiet before Him, He'll show up.
— Chip Ingram, Spiritual Simplicity: How Loving More Means Doing Less
Through seeing the good in others, you also see the best within yourself.
— Warren Cassell Jr., The Farm of Wisdom: 25 Unforgettable Tales that Will Ignite a Wiser You!
I'd always vaguely expected to outgrown my limitations.
— Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
The result of mindful awareness is the development of our virtues, which are the basic positive building blocks of our life.
— Janet Gallagher Nestor
Dedicate each day to living relaxed and worry-free. Consciously open your heart to the flow of Creation and Creation's energy. By doing so you have the power to create each day, one day at a time.
— Janet Gallagher Nestor, Nurturing Wellness Through Radical Self-Care: A Living in Balance Guide and Workbook
One who has a clear mind can never be fooled by his senses.
— Warren Cassell Jr., The Farm of Wisdom: 25 Unforgettable Tales that Will Ignite a Wiser You!
The smallest drop of rain can project the most beautiful of visions, all we have to do is look a little deeper. -T.L. Manning
— T.L. Manning
Amidst all the criticisms and prejudgement in life, we should strive to do good in return; however small, instead of just turning your back against the world.
— Warren Cassell Jr., The Farm of Wisdom: 25 Unforgettable Tales that Will Ignite a Wiser You!
Freedom of action is disguised as a freedom of discipline.
— Warren Cassell Jr., The Farm of Wisdom: 25 Unforgettable Tales that Will Ignite a Wiser You!
Independence is like a flower that nurtures itself in the light of another.
— Zephyr A. McIntyre
Being impatient is rocket fuel for success. I have seen very few patient successful people. Most are impatient and always ready to move!
— Robert D. Kintigh
I am who I am firstly because of genetics, and, running a very close second, because of choices: ones my parents made, such as choosing to emigrate to America; ones their parents made, like my Papa Butler opting to ignore medical advice and instead warming my mum in the oven to keep her alive; and very conscious ones that I've made for myself.
— John Barrowman, Anything Goes
As we change, our writing changes too. You cannot write the same poem twice. And that's a good thing.
— Katerina Stoykova Klemer
I am billionaire bold bright omnipotent lively determined to go within to win opening my omnific eyes to realize wisdom innovation naturalizes…My cascading flow of financial love lavishly streams gold bars as I realize gold is intrinsic wealth as my intuitive imagination is my intrinsic innovations…
— Robert A. Wilson, Holiday Wisdom
Stop listening to the TV tell you about America the beautiful . . . get up and be America the beautiful.
— Rivera Sun, Steam Drills, Treadmills and Shooting Stars - a story of our times -
I believe that there is something in all of us that is seeking expression, that wants to be heard, that wants to be accepted and respected and loved. We each express ourselves in different ways - through manipulation or domination, through receiving and giving pain, through crying, through loving, through giving hope and inspiration to others. We are all seeking the same thing - expression of who we are and what we want from this life.
— Robin D. Hart, Warning! Proceed With Caution Into the Practice of Law
You'd be surprised how often you doubt your own sanity when you don't understand your own capacities.
— K.M. Mac Aulay "Black Anna"
Law firms can create environments for abusive relationships. This is especially true if an attorney has no self-direction, has no independent means of financial support, and has massive student loan indebtedness. You've basically made yourself an indentured servant.
— Robin D. Hart, Warning! Proceed With Caution Into the Practice of Law
The moment we begin to define others and ourselves by how we are different, the seeds of separation are planted.
— Kim H. Krisco, Talking to Trees: A Chronicle of One Coach's Journey Into a New Coaching Paradigm
Peace is self-examination and being all right with what you see. Freedom is being able to open up to others without the worry of persecution. Happiness is seeing others for who they are and embracing the differences.
— Leeann Smith
Change cannot and will not happen overnight. But the intent to evolve will produce opportunities for growth.
— Robin D. Hart, Warning! Proceed With Caution Into the Practice of Law
I found that we must build our consciousness or faith step by step. When we make certain impressions on our subconscious mind and live for years by those impressions we cannot expect to destroy them in a few days. We must patiently substitute constructive, loving, harmonious thoughts for destructive, critical ones. The more you realize your freedom, the happier you become. Faith, joy, health, contentment, you just bubble over with these wonderful attributes and they attract the best people and environment.
— Venice J. Bloodworth, Key to Yourself: Opening the Door to a Joyful Life from Within
Your life plays out as a reflection of your genetic makeup and potentiality as expressed through your environment and choices. Love yourself enough to create an environment in your life that is conducive to the nourishment of your personal growth. Allow yourself to let go of the people, thoughts, and situations that poison your well-being. Cultivate a vibrant surrounding and commit yourself to making choices that will help you release the greatest expression of your unique beauty and purpose.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
From apparently the basest metals we have the finest toned bells.
— Frederick Douglass
Strength does not come in those times when you hit the mark
—  it comes in those times when you strive to but miss.
There are very few of us who remember the day, the moment, when our childhood ends. For most of us, the sun sets on our innocence gradually, sliding down over the western horizon like a toboggan run down over a long, steep slope. We are never really conscious of the moment we reach the bottom of the slope; we just know that one day we wake up and the toboggan ride is over.
— Jennifer Wixson
I wanted a life full of intrigue and mystery, new environments, and new people...[a] temporary life with no fear of being trapped,
— Addy Stevens
Make sure your subconscious knows you love it by stroking it until it purrs.
— Teresa Sue McAdams
While I was trying to write, I was trying to grow.
— Whitaker Chambers
Be positive, cheerful, kind and loving; you will get what you reflect.
— J.M. Enage
Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
— Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
Here's some advice. Stay alive.
— Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
— Benjamin Franklin
The Four Agreements1. Be impeccable with your word.2. Don’t take anything personally.3. Don’t make assumptions.4. Always do your best. 
— Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
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— Colleen Hoover, Slammed
Do not complain beneath the stars about the lack of bright spots in your life.
— Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Always speak politely to an enraged dragon.
— Steven Brust, Jhereg
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice
—  had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
I don't think anyone can give you advice when you've got a broken heart.
— Britney Spears
Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
If you can keep your head when all about youAre losing theirs and blaming it on you,If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,But make allowance for their doubting too;!
— Rudyard Kipling, If: A Father's Advice to His Son
I always advise people never to give advice.
— P.G. Wodehouse
You can think clearly only with your clothes on.
— Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.
— Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story
Baby," she says in a harsh whisper, "in this world, lots of people will try to grind you down. They need you to be small so they can be big. You let them think whatever they want, but you make sure you get yours. You get yours.
— Holly Black, Red Glove
The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother's milk. Darkness will make you strong.
— George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
— Erica Jong
People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
If your clothes are enough to drive would-be friends away, they're not the kind of friends you want." Typical mother advice. Sweet, honest, and completely useless.
— Aprilynne Pike, Wings
In the end only kindness matters.
— Jewel
Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.
— Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?
— Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
The best advice I've ever received is, 'No one else knows what they're doing either.
— Ricky Gervais
All your life people will tell you things. And most of the time, probably ninety-five percent of the time, what they'll tell you will be wrong.
— Michael Crichton, The Lost World
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
— Erma Bombeck
Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.
— Harlan Ellison
But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another.
— C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy
Never ask an elf for help; they might decide your better off dead, eh?
— Christopher Paolini, Eldest
To share is precious, pure and fair.Don't play with something you should cherish for life. Don't you wanna care, ain't it lonely out there?
— Marvin Gaye
Good advice I always hated, but lookin back it made me greater.
— Nicki Minaj
You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart.
— Adrian Tan
My Dear Son,I am so very proud of you. Now, as you embark on a new journey, I'd like to share this one piece of advice. Always, always remember that - adversity is not a detour. It is part of the path.You will encounter obstacles. You will make mistakes. Be grateful for both. Your obstacles and mistakes will be your greatest teachers. And the only way to not make mistakes in this life is to do nothing, which is the biggest mistake of all. Your challenges, if you let them, will become your greatest allies. Mountains can crush or raise you, depending on which side of the mountain you choose to stand on. All history bears out that the great, those who have changed the world, have all suffered great challenges. And, more times than not it's precisely those challenges that, in God's time, lead to triumph.Abhor victimhood. Denounce entitlement. Neither are gifts, rather cages to damn the soul. Everyone who has walked this earth is a victim of injustice. Everyone.Most of all, do not be too quick to denounce your sufferings. The difficult road you are called to walk may, in fact be your only path to success.
— Richard Paul Evans, A Winter Dream
if something does go wrong, here is my advice... KEEP CALM and CARRY ON.
— Maira Kalman, The Principles of Uncertainty
Only boring people get bored.
— Ruth Burke
Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
I'm always suspicious of disinterested interest.
— Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
Anyway, there is one thing I have learned and that is not to dress uncomfortably, in styles which hurt: winklepicker shoes that cripple your feet and tight pants that squash your balls. Indian clothes are better.
— George Harrison
If thou wouldst seek justice, thyself must be just. 
— Stephen R. Lawhead, Hood
Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you only take what is worth having.
— George S. Clason, The Richest Man in Babylon
I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
— Bette Davis
Walk with care in dark places, and do not put your faith in anyone who promises you the forgiveness of the Lord or a certain place in Paradise.
— Clive Barker, Mister B. Gone
Who are they to give stars or dots? They're Wemmicks just like you."Eli to Punchinello (p. 25)
— Max Lucado, You Are Special
And stop talking in that puffed-up way they taught you. Words aren't brains, you know.
— Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin
Never make the first move." - Loor (The Rivers of Zadaa)
— D.J. MacHale
Be hated. One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, it’s often the case that one is hated precisely because one is trying to do right by one’s own convictions. It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions. Then one will gravitate towards the centre and settle into the average. That cannot be your role. There are a great many bad people in the world, and if you are not offending them, you must be bad yourself.
— Adrian Tan
When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
— Al Franken
Never have children, only grandchildren.
— Gore Vidal
Human evolution has two steps - from being somebody to being nobody
— and from being nobody to being everybody.This knowledge can bring sharing and caring throughout the world.
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet
I need voices of reason and of hysteria and of empathy. I need to have an Alanis moment. I need advice from Elizabeth Bennett. I need Tim Tams and comfort food.
— Melina Marchetta, Saving Francesca
I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.
— Holly Lisle, The Silver Door
Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
— William Shakespeare
Great News! If you quit being cunty the whole world will stop being against you!
— Sarah Silverman
Never miss a chance...to keep your mouth shut.
— Robert Newton Peck, A Day No Pigs Would Die
Never take advice from a donkey.
— Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One
Gran, for the gods' love, it's talk like yours that starts riots!" I said keeping my voice down. "Will you just put a stopper in it?"She looked at me and sighed. "Girl, do you ever take a breath and wonder if folk don't put out bait for you? To see if you'll bite? You'll never get a man if you don't relax."My dear old Gran. It's a wonder her children aren't every one of them as mad as priests, if she mangles their wits as she mangles mine."Granny, "I told her, "this is dead serious. I can't relax, no more than any Dog. I'm not shopping for a man. That's the last thing I need.
— Tamora Pierce, Bloodhound
People make mistakes, it's just part of life. But, it's what we do with those mistakes that matters. What matters is what we learn from the mistakes, not what the mistake is.
— Chris Hankin
If you are going to worry, don't do it. If you do it, don't worry.
— Michael Nolan
Every human being, he believed, must do one of three basic things during his lifetime: leave something living, create something lovely, or make something better.
— Renée Manfredi, Above the Thunder
Until you stalk and overrun, you cannot devour anyone.-Hobbes
— Bill Watterson
Honor your mistake as a hidden intention.
— Brian Eno
Most dancers I know, especially the talented and successful ones, seem to possess [my dog's] knack for living moment to moment. You see, their idea of time is related to those infinitely short moments when they are onstage being their superselves.
— Paul Taylor, Private Domain: An Autobiography
You come to me for advice, but you can't cope with anything you don't recognize. Hmmm. So we'll have to tell you something you already know but make it sound like news, eh Well, business as usual , I suppose.
— Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you're any wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
— Edward R. Murrow
Sometimes the best advice comes from those whom you least expect…therefore take no one for granted
— Jeremy Aldana
My father always told me: 'Give somebody a hand and he'll take an arm.
— Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.
— Brendan Francis Brown
Never give in to peer pressure, especially if the peer is not attractive.
— Eugene Mirman, The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life
It is the thinnest lines that define us.
— David Macinnis Gill, Black Hole Sun
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that — the young man or the young woman must possess or teach himself, train himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance. That is, to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is ... curiosity to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does. And if you have that, then I don't think the talent makes much difference, whether you've got that o
— William Faulkner
For the advice in a joke is sometimes more useful than the most serious teaching.
— Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom
The Director's Role: You are the obstetrician. You are not the parent of this child we call the play. You are present at its birth for clinical reasons, like a doctor or midwife. Your job most of the time is simply to do no harm.When something does go wrong, however, your awareness that something is awry--and your clinical intervention to correct it--can determine whether the child will thrive or suffer, live or die.
— Frank Hauser, Notes on Directing
I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgement. You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others; and presently some bland old bird (the last you would have thought of) is knocked on the head in his own back garden, and the family have to change their name. No, sir, I make it a rule of mine: the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask.
— Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Never pay attention to someone who has not earned your respect.
— Habeeb Akande
If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined.
— Louis L'Amour, The Man Called Noon
Never offer advice just to appear concerned.
— Jack Gardner, Words Are Not Things
Dear Aspiring Writer, you are not ready. Stop. Put that finished story away and start another one. In a month, go back and look at the first story. RE-EDIT it. Then send it to a person you respect in the field who will be hard on you. Pray for many many many red marks. Fix them. Then put it away for two weeks. Work on something else. Finally, edit one last time. Now you are ready to sub your first work.Criticism is hard to take at first. Trust me, I've been there. But learn to think of crit marks as a knife. Each one is designed to cut away the bad and leave a scar. Scars prove you've lived, learned and walked away a winner. Any writer who tells you they don't need edits is lying. I don't care if they have 100 books out. Edits make you grow and if you aren't growing as a writer, you are dead.
— Inez Kelley
Stay stupid. Follow your unconventional, crazy heart.
— Steven Pressfield, Do the Work
A verbal contract is worth about as much as the paper it's written on.
— Samuel Goldwyn
It's the story of my life. You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead. Now, as you look through this document you'll see that I've underlined all the major decisions I ever made to make the stand out. They're all indexed and cross-referenced. See? All I can suggest is that if you take decisions that are exactly opposite to the sort of decisions that I've taken, then maybe you won't finish up at the end of your life" --she paused, and filled her lungs for a good should--"in a smelly old cave like this!
— Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
It hurts when you lose a friend to death, it hurts even more when you lose a friend still living.
— C.J. Tulli
I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested.
— Jane Austen
One bullet can really fuck up your day.
— Mark Haskell Smith, Baked
No. The moral of the story in so far as it has one is that cannibals can study logic, and that if you are going to leave the path, you better have your wits about you and know better than to trust the first scary old lady who talks to you in public.
— Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World
Of course, to avoid getting stuck in that convo with someone you dislike or feel uncomfortable around, don't be passive, be proactive. Do not let them direct your interaction on their terms, do it on yours. Ask a Misdirection Question--something too difficult to answer quickly--e.g., 'What's Congress up to?' or 'You ever learn any cool science?' When you ask the question, don't make eye contact, keep moving and get out of there. Do not wait for a response and deny ever asking it. Repeat these actions until you are never again spoken to by that individual (about four times).
— Eugene Mirman, The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life
Here's the last thing that occurs to me as Sarah recedes in the rearview mirror, slamming out of the car, jogging across the parking lot: If you're one tardy away from missing out on a big competition, you should probably make your coffee at home.
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
Why do you do that?Do what?Blow off compliments.I don't.You kind of do.Sorry.Don't apologize. Just learn to say thanks.
— Marisa Reichardt, Underwater
I go on the presumption that everyone's full of shit until proven otherwise, and this usually serves me in good stead.
— Dennis Lehane, A Drink Before the War
It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.
— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
In the shower today I tried to think about the best advice I'd ever been given by another writer. There was something that someone said at my first Milford, about using style as a covering, but sooner or later you would have to walk naked down the street, that was useful...And then I remembered. It was Harlan Ellison about a decade ago.He said, "Hey. Gaiman. What's with the stubble? Every time I see you, you're stubbly. What is it? Some kind of English fashion statement?""Not really.""Well? Don't they have razors in England for Chrissakes?""If you must know, I don't like shaving because I have a really tough beard and sensitive skin. So by the time I've finished shaving I've usually scraped my face a bit. So I do it as little as possible.""Oh." He paused. "I've got that too. What you do is, you rub your stubble with hair conditioner. Leave it a couple of minutes, then wash it off. Then shave normally. Makes it really easy to shave. No scraping."I tried it. It works like a charm. Best advice from a writer I've ever received.
— Neil Gaiman
It costs nothing to ask wise advice from a good friend.
— George S. Clason, The Richest Man in Babylon
I said, "I don't think I can give you that kind of emotion." And he [Hitchcock] sat there and said, "Ingrid, fake it!" Well, that was the best advice I've had in my whole life, because in all the years to come there were many directors who gave me what I thought were quite impossible instructions and many difficult things to do, and just when I was on the verge of starting to argue with them, I heard his voice coming to me through the air saying, "Ingrid, fake it!" It saved a lot of unpleasant situations and waste of time.
— Ingrid Bergman
For the love of God, unless you’re prepping for Rigoletto at the Met, go easy on the eyeliner.
— Cheryl Cory
Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius.
— Connie Brockway, The Bridal Season
Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does notfear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any commonprizefighter? Who would stoop to be fearless--like a tree? Fight thething that you fear. You remember the old tale of the English clergymanwho gave the last rites to the brigand of Sicily, and how on hisdeath-bed the great robber said, 'I can give you no money, but I cangive you advice for a lifetime: your thumb on the blade, and strikeupwards.' So I say to you, strike upwards, if you strike at the stars.
— G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar.
— Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.
— Don DeLillo, Great Jones Street
I'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well.
— Omar Sharif
Conscience is like a pet: If you spoil it by too much attention it'll start yipping at the most inopportune times.
— Connie Brockway, The Bridal Season
Advice is what we ask for when we already knew the answer but wish we didn't.
— John C. Maxwell, The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization
Title: What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years? Only verse: Nothing.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
And all of the scientific data, statistical facts and empirical evidence can't compete with the indefinable heart's desire. For if in the end, she loves you, and she chooses you…none of the rest of this will matter.
— Ruth Clampett, Animate Me
I would rather be confused for 10 minutes than bored for 5 seconds.
— Russell T. Davies
Here are the two states in which you may exist: person who writes, or person who does not. If you write: you are a writer. If you do not write: you are not. Aspiring is a meaningless null state that romanticizes Not Writing. It’s as ludicrous as saying, “I aspire to pick up that piece of paper that fell on the floor.” Either pick it up or don’t. I don’t want to hear about how your diaper’s full. Take it off or stop talking about it.
— Chuck Wendig
No real lady would let a dress that might have been worn by a stranger touch her skin.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
Now go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.
— Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art
Love will hurt. If it doesn't hurt you are not doing it right. To truly love someone you must open yourself up to the pain that would be losing them.
— Teresa Mummert
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia.
— Mary Schmich, Wear Sunscreen: A Primer for Real Life
I realize that advice is worth what it costs--that is, nothing.
— Douglas MacArthur
I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.
— Oprah Winfrey, My Life
If you have to think about it twice you probably shouldn't do it
— Sophia Nam
Do whatever you want. Break stuff, touch your penis or boobs to anything, whatever.
— Eugene Mirman, The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life
I admonish Your Majesty, as the woman who gave you life and loves you like no other, to behave always in a manner that safeguards your immortal soul. Seek God's glory in the Holy Land rather than your own, that I may see you in heaven if never again in France.
— Sophie Perinot, The Sister Queens
Over the years I've received thousands of e-mails looking for guidance. Some have real problems
—  some talk about monkeys and poo--though those people may also have real problems.
If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of 10 times.
— Anselm Feurbah
Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: "Just say no.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Bluebeard
When faced with 2 choices, simply toss a coin. It works not because it settles the question for you. But because in that brief moment when the coin is in the air YOU SUDDENLY KNOW WHAT YOUR HOPING FOR. :)
— wisdom quotes
All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem.
— Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change