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Some see the glass as half full, others see it as half empty, and then there are those who see it as a glass of water.Open your eyes and your mind to see beyond the obvious." ~
— Chaye Alexander
Why destroy this Morn, by a Past that is dead & Gone and a Future not yet Born! - RVM.
— R.v.m.
Be thankful that you are on your feet, for there are people who can't even walk down the street. - RVM.
— R.v.m.
I am the Richest man on earth because I am the Happiest man on earth. After all, isn’t Happiness the Greatest Wealth in Life? - RVM.
— R.v.m.
My Personality and Attitude is Much Attractive Than your Outer Look !
— -Japs Loner
Cycling, like masturbation, is fun and easy to do - sometimes all day long.
— Tom  Doig, Moron to Moron: Two Men, Two Bikes, One Mongolian Misadventure
I said to you this day, that my life will move in a different way, to a successful place, were I will stay"!
— Joseph Potts
You'll never know your strength if you avoid your challenges
— Al King
You have to look at your life, as a person who must walk with the many, but develop yourselve to be one on the few 
— Joseph Potts
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
— Dale Carnegie, The Leader In You: How to Win Friends, Influence People and Succeed in a Changing World
No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Don't beat yourself up for not knowing the answers. You don't always have to know who you are. You don't have to have the big picture, or know where you're heading. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what you're going to do next.
— Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess
The world is what YOU think of it, so think of it DIFFERENTLY and your life will change.
— Paul Arden, Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite
Never Say Never if you know you can do what you love don't give up.
— Justin Bieber
Haters and bullies are always cowards, you know. They like to pick on little guys.
— Scylar Tyberius, Sebastian the Great
never say never see what is possible if you never give up
— Justin Bieber
Most people miss their whole lives, you know. Listen, life isn't when you are standing on top of a mountain looking at a sunset. Life isn't waiting at the alter or the moment your child is born or that time you were swimming in a deep water and a dolphin came up alongside you. These are fragments. 10 or 12 grains of sand spread throughout your entire existence. These are not life. Life is brushing your teeth or making a sandwich or watching the news or waiting for the bus. Or walking. Every day, thousands of tiny events happen and if you're not watching, if you're not careful, if you don't capture them and make them COUNT, your could miss it. You could miss your whole life.
— Toni Jordan, Addition
Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given them. All of our discontents for what we want appear to me to spring from want of thankfulness for what we have.
— Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
What gets measured gets improved.
— Robin S. Sharma, The Greatness Guide: Powerful Secrets for Getting to World Class
People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.
— Eudora Welty, Delta Wedding
The truth is, what you do matters. What you do today matters. What you do every day matters. Successful people just do the things that seem to make no difference in the act of doing them and they do them over and over and over until the compound effect kicks in.
— Jeff Olson, The Slight Edge: Secret to a Successful Life
People look for greatness only in the extraordinary and completely overlook the wonder of the ordinary.
— Ann Tatlock, Promises to Keep
To be alive──is Power.
— Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
For under scrutiny you will find that even an open book can have a surprise scribbled in its margins.
— Violet Haberdasher, The Secret Prince
When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know.
— Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells
And I just think that if you believe in something and you want it so much and you're not hurting anyone else, you have to go for it. Which sometimes means taking a risk, even if it's scary. But the thing you want most to happen doesn't stand a chance unless you give it one.
— Susane Colasanti, Take Me There
You can't wait around for something to become good, it either is, or isn't.
— Toni Aleo, Empty Net
Because my life isn't going to wait around while I figure out how to make it work.
— Susane Colasanti, Take Me There
We are born to believe We can’t change a thing We can’t, and we never could. But before you believe The things you believeYou must understand To be understood.
— John C. O’Callaghan
You see? This is why you don't get mixed up in people's lives. Because the living are messy and complicated, and things end up going to hell one way or another, every time.
— Megan Crewe, Give Up the Ghost
Want more credit for all you do and who you are? Be the one who gives credit to others.
— Robin S. Sharma
If someone wanted to have a grudge against me, or didn't agree with my lifestyle, the way I breathed, the space I took up on this planet, they had an open door to 'report' to the powers that be.
— Mark Alders
Many times you will fail. That is the nature of the world, and the truth of life. But when you find your horse again, will go back or will you go forward?
— Robert McCammon
never use sarcasm in an email
— Matthew Lasar
I thought following a straight road would lead me right to my destination. Like the road would just take me there because I was following all the rules. And if the road curved, I couldn't be sure about where I was going. But look where it got me. Maybe it's time for a detour.
— Susane Colasanti, Take Me There
The only thing you should be faking is confidence. If you don't have it yet, pretend that you do. Pretend you're not nervous, pretend you're not scared, and after a while, the pretend part disappears.
— Patricia V. Davis, The Diva Doctrine: 16 Universal Principles Every Woman Needs to Know
It is the evening that questions thus from within me.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
You may forsake a person, a family, some location of the heart, but scars and memories cannot be discarded like used clothing.
— Chris Fabry, A Marriage Carol
Sometimes I tend to worry too much and at the end of all the preoccupation nothing goes wrong.
— Ana Monnar
Every person on the face of the earth makes mistakes, Lily. Every last one. We're all so human. Your mother made a terrible mistake, but she tried to fix it.''Good night,' I said, and rolled onto my side.'There is nothing perfect,' August said from the doorway. 'There is only life.
— Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
Resentments are like swallowing poison and waiting for the other person to die.
— Brenda Wilhelmson, Diary of an Alcoholic Housewife
Love is a funny thing. The ones we love don't always love us back.
— Scylar Tyberius, Sebastian the Great
Some flowers bloom beneath the biggest blue,while others prefer the shade;As is Human Nature.....Some turn their faces to the sunwhile others seek solitude.But no matter where you wish to stand;Stand Straight and Stand tall.
— Michelle Geaney
Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and bullies--people who think that their rigtness justifies them in imposing on anyone who does not happen to suscribe to their particular ideology, dogma or notion of turf. If the conviction of rightness is powerful enough, resistance to it will be met, sooner or later by force. There are people like this in every sphere of life, and it is natural to feel that the world would be a better place without them!
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Money isn't everything, but it's right up there with oxygen.
— Rita Davenport
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
— Josh Billings
...But something worse can happen to the person who is betrayed.""What? What could possibly happen to me that is worse?"The older man stared at the younger, and then said pityingly, "You may learn treachery from it.
— Jane Jakeman, In the Kingdom of Mists
I don't appreciate people when they judge someone with their appearance but not their feelings. It feels like they want to rule that person for rest of their life.
— Kiran Arshad
Paper tigers quake with fear when a real tiger enters the room.
— Beau Johnston
A Dog can never brag about catching a cat that waited for him.
— Tonny K. Brown
Poverty is a mental virus, even if one could get a million, the mindset will always kick in.
— Evans Biya
It's a tough life, she'd said. "It's the little things that get us through the day.
— Jeffery Deaver, Edge
He who does not value life does not deserve it.
— Leonardo da Vinci
You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
— Leonardo da Vinci, Thoughts on Art and Life
learn to be them and you will know what you are...
— N.Hernanie
Life is a strange mixture of all of these genres, she mused, and it doesn’t have nearly as neat and happy an ending as you often get in books.
— Liz Braswell, As Old as Time
It's not about what we take with us when we die, it's about what we leave behind
— Sandesh limbu
When the present feels as endless as an impossibly long hallway between airport terminals, white and sterile and numb, we're particularly receptive to signs.
— Kate Bolick, Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own
All human wisdom is contained in these two words: 'wait' and 'hope'".
— Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
don't believe to your eyes believe to your actions
— Alessandro Malaguti
RISK IS NOT ALWAYS A GOOD CHANCE
— Alessandro Malaguti
We are always getting ready to live, but never living.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selected Works: Essays, Poems, and Dispatches with Introduction
We all have choices, some are just harder to make than others
— Kirsten Beyer, Full Circle
People are not as smart as you want them to be
— Majid Al-Maskari
Listen to a excellent story give us a good feeling, seeing results will giving us the satisfaction and trust in life
— Jan Jansen Easy Branches
You can not fix everything. You can not fix most of what's wrong. But you can try. And it is in trying that you learn who you are.
— Kirsten Beyer, The Eternal Tide
The gods made the world round so that we could never see too far into our own futuer.
— Kirsten Beyer, The Eternal Tide
Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply about what you believe in. And when you stumble, keep faith. And when you’re knocked down, get right back up, and never listen to anyone who says you can’t or shouldn’t go on.
— Hillary Rodham Clinton
It's very natural to believe that everything is aimed at you: storm, cold, whatever. Most of the time it's not; you just happen to be there when it's happening. If you believe that, it will make life easier.
— Elsie Aidinoff, Garden
Young hearts too often have tunnel vision.
— K.J. Farnham, Click Date Repeat
Happiness is your inherent nature. In the hustle and bustle of life, you have forgotten a part of yourself, and looking for it outside. Fill this void with happiness that is sustainable, not transitory; that illuminates your life and that of others, that is life giving and so natural.
— Sanchita Pandey, Cancer to Cure
Thank goodness we don'y meet many people like [Miss Trunchbull] in this world, although they do exist and all of us are likely to come across at least one of them in a lifetime. If you ever do, you should behave as you would if you met an enraged rhinoceros out in the bush--climb up the nearest tree and stay there until it has gone away.
— Roald Dahl
if you don't get rid of the wrong friends you will never meet the right friends
— Jeroen Saey
On ambition, goal setting and competition - it doesn't matter if you lose, but you can't win if you don't play the game.
— Aaron Lauritsen
No, love, in real life you can get all the way to death and never have finished one single story.
— Catherynne M. Valente, Radiance
Never give up but never forget to grow up.
— Debasish Mridha
People in this world are cruel, selfish and ignorant. The only way to survive is to be the good side of yourself.
— Willian Chua
I learned something important that night. You shouldn’t try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you’re supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you’re supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it’s necessary because it’s all part of you getting to the next part of yourself, the next day.
— Cecelia Ahern, The Book of Tomorrow
We all need help with education to go the right direction in our Life.
— Jan Jansen
Life is all about change. If it were static, think about how boring it would be. You can't be afraid of it, and you can't worry that you'll mess things up.
— Ellen Hopkins, Impulse
As I've always said to Talyn, tough times never last. But tough Andarions. I learned that from watching you as a boy. Your parents, grandparents, and Keris treated you like shit and yet you never once spoke against them. You'd just lift your chin and carry on. 'Barking dogs don't bother me,' you used to say. 'Sooner or later, they reach the end of their yard and hit a fence. I'll keep going past it, and won't hear them anymore.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Born of Betrayal
Life is full of possibilities and people should take an advantage of it to pursue success."﻿
— Saaif Alam
He wished to please everybody," Franklin later said of Keith, "and having little to give, he gave expectations.
— Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
I knew it was foolhardy; men of experience say, "Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity,
— Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
Tom's theory of why human beings had yet to receive any message from extraterrestrial intelligences was that all civilizations, without exception, blew themselves up almost as soon as they were able to get a message out, never lasting more than a few decades in a galaxy whose age was billions; blinking in and out of existence so fast that, even if the galaxy abounded with earthlike planets, the chances of one civilization sticking around to get a message from another were vanishingly low, because it was too damned easy to split the atom.
— Jonathan Franzen, Purity
There is always someone better off than you, and there is always someone worse off than you.
— C.L. Hall
The real life essence is to do the things that makes you really happy.
— Demi Jane Tumulak
Clear and plain glass is considered cheap while the same glass if tinted with color is considered expensive. that's today's world. It's better to be tinted than being clear.
— Samriddhi Singh
life is not about distance , it’s about direction
— Divya Prakash Dubey, Masala Chay
There's two wolves battling us all right now... One's good, the other one is evil. If you're wondering which wolf inside will succeed, simple it's the one that you feed...
— Ronnie Radke
I will teach my son, that his desire to be great doesn't depend on those unfortunate enough to ignore their own.
— Nikki Rowe
Remember to have courage, that is one of the few things that no one can ever take away from you.
— Chris Colfer The Land of Stories
We seldom question the purpose of life when our world is sunny and bright. This question tends to hide itself during pleasant sailing, only rearing its face during the deepest and darkest travails, when the gales of storm weather have fallen.
— Donald L. Hicks, The Divinity Factor
What I would like to say to you in conclusion is this: romance is the dessert. If you are hungry, you need to be working on the main meal - yourself. That means learning how to fulfill yourself first, and once you have achieved that, then you will be ready for dessert!" - Raeleen
— Belinda Jones
Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them
— Oscar Wilde
My flaws and imperfections make me perfectly incomplete.
— Aisha Mirza
Just because you felt like a failure in the past, doesn't mean you can't get back up again and make something better of your future.
— Lara Adrian, The Midnight Breed Series Companion
The research on male-female attraction tells us that in reality neither males nor females thinks that physical attraction a turn-on. It's the slightly tousled hair, imperceptibly loosened tie, the little flaws that attract someone because we perceive them as human and thus like ourselves
— Belinda Jones, The Love Academy
Is this not the reason I write, to leave a piece of me behind?
— Aisha Mirza
He would eventually have to pass through the forest, but he felt no fear. Of course - the forest was inside him, he knew, and it made him who he was.
— Haruki Murakami, After the Quake
Having high resilience does not mean it doesn't sometimes sting.
— Aisha Mirza
Never tell yourself that it's going to be okay. Because more times than you know, it wont be okay. You'll crash and burn and your dreams will turn to ashes.
— Amber Pollard
I believe the meaning of life is the relationships we have with each other." ﻿
— Ken Poirot, Mentor Me: GA=T+E—A Formula to Fulfill Your Greatest Achievement
Your men will not take the hill if you're simply yelling commands from the safety of the rear.
— Noel DeJesus
Live with dignity or die getting it.
— Abdelkader Benchekroun
Back in time it seemed that having a sister were a tragedy. Instead it is one of the best presents my parents could have ever given me.
— Sara Anzellotti, An unexpected Proposal
If you take something then take only the best of all.
— Pēteris Bitāns
Moonlight signifies a time when there is hope in darkness, but you have to focus on that hope.
— Therese May
before you do anything remember that it will back to you later.
— helda omar
If you always make the right decision, the safe decision, the one most people make, you will be the same as everyone else.
— Paul Arden, Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite
Getting what you want means making the decisions you need to make to get what you want.Not the decisions those around you think you should make.Making the safe decision is full, predictable and elads nowhere new.The unsafe decision causess you to think and respond in a way you hadn't thought of.And that thought will lead to other thoughts which will help you achieve what you want.Start taking bad decisions and it will take you to a plce where others only dream of being.
— Paul Arden, Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite
The idea that people who guarded you could also be the people that you needed guarding from was nothing anyone should have to learn.
— Tiphanie Yanique, Land of Love and Drowning
I may like easy choices, but I appreciate the difficult ones more.
— Michael Hebler
Do good, and you'll always be a constant reminder of your good-self.
— Mapogo Chuene
What is life? It is like a shadow that appears and vanishes.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is life.Don't ever look back in life.Life ahead is far better than the past.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Where did it all begin? These are simple questions, but just as the humid summer air that can be felt but not touched, the answers are elusive.
— Elmer Seward, Dreams of the Sleepless
Life is what we made out of it's self, to fall into the darkest of them all and to be able to knock on the door of hell is the only one way ticket to a better understanding of oneself and a better person to life.
— Mariny
We all need something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for.
— Dick Van Dyke, My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business
I can't assume responsibility for a man's infidelity, no more than I can take credit for his choice to remain faithful.
— Lorraine Maloney Armstrong
You have the ability to just go on and forget people and how much they are meant, but I don't. You can people in their own little boxes and leave them there. So much for love. So much for soul mates. I'm sorry you don't want to believe the best or how I can change. You put a stake through the heart. I'm the only one who cared enough to suffer like this.
— Deb Caletti, Stay
In order for people to live their own lives and fulfill their destiny, they must differentiate themselves from destructive environmental influences.
— Lisa Firestone, The Self Under Siege: A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation
Never shake hands with a scorpion.
— Beau Johnston
Love is a trance which oscillates between hormones and emotions.
— Chandan Sharma
In school you are taught a Lesson then given a Test but In Life you are given a Test that teaches you a Lesson
— Josh Nyash Esir
Stop Saying'I WISH' Start Saying 'I WILL
— Aditya Mahajan
Wisdom holds a candle to experience, but you've got to take the candle and walk alone.
— Lauren Kate, Teardrop
But my mom shook her head at him and said to me, "Yes, you made your bed, but for heaven's sakes, don't just lie in it!
— Clare Vanderpool, Navigating Early
Please remember, no matter how hard it seems and no matter how badly you feel you can always become courageous.
— Abeba Habtu, Become Courageous Abeba: A Story of Love, Loss, War and Hope
What will undo any boundary is the awareness that it is our vision, and not what we are viewing, that is limited.
— James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
YOU CANT CHANGE THE PAST,BUT YOU CAN RUIN YOUR PERFECTLY PRESENT LIFE BY WORRYING ABOUT YOUR FUTURE.
— Lester Swan
Face it,' I said. 'There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got,' I said.
— Anne Tyler, Back When We Were Grownups
There is no limitations except those we create for ourselves
— Lolly Daskal, Thoughts Spoken From The Heart
....But i couldn't. Was nowhere near ready for a committed relationship, and it wouldn't be fair. I needed time - to become the right man for a woman like you.
— Marci Shimoff, Chicken Soup for the Single's Soul (Chicken Soup for the Soul
Sometimes our path is difficult... because the ending is worth it!
— Milan Ljubincic
I've allowed myself to lead this little life, when inside me there was so much more.
— Willy Russell, Shirley Valentine
We often search for the gold in our life but we fail to understand that all glisters are not gold, When we understand our mistake it's too late, So never run after anything, Just wait for the right time to get the best in life.
— Debolina Bhawal
The worst illness is to live life that others want you to live and best medicine to this illness is "Awareness of Death
— Vijay Dhameliya
Don't allow him/her to have supremacy over you. People like them come and go, so never concede on finding the ideal soul-mate.
— Naeem Hartley
Falling is not hard to do just take your feet from under you but do you want to risk something that could hurt you, life is like that choose to fall and fall choose success and acomplish
— Felisha Rush
Trust no one,and let none believe.
— George Lyman
Everyone is terrified of death, as we spend our whole lives avoiding it.
— Kelly Zygmunt
It doesn't matter what has happened to you, it matters what you do with what has happened to you. Life is like a poker game. You don't get to choose the cards you are dealt, but it's entirely up to you how to play the hand.
— Regina Brett, God Never Blinks: 50 Lessons for Life's Little Detours
None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded. But, ... there is no such thing as "too late" in life.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
The New testament commanded to love each other, pray for each other, encourage each other, admonish each other, greet each other, serve each other, teach each other, accept each other, honor each other, bear each other's burdens, forgive each other, submit to each other, be devoted each other, and many other mutual tasks. This is biblical membership!
— Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.”And facing death changes that?"Oh, yes. You strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
Life is like a game, once your piece is on the board there is no leaving until you have finished. It does not matter how you finished just that you pass the line...
— Samuel Train
Well...yeah. It just goes to show. (Peabody)Show what (Dallas)You should get dressed up, go dancing, drink grown-up cocktails, and have sex as much as you can before you're dead. (Peabody)
— J.D. Robb, Thankless in Death
On game days, I could be in the worst mood imagiable-a really bad mood. But sometimes, I'd get a call from the Make-A-Wish Foundation-there would be people, sometimes kids, who anted to meet me before they died. And the foundation would call on a game day and say, "There's kid dying here whose last wish is to see you. Can you just come and see him?" I'd get there and sometimes the kid would be comatose. One day, a kid woke up for a split second and smiled at me. I was told he'd been hanging on. The mom and dad called me later and said, "I don't know what yu did to him, but those few moments were wonderful." And I cried all the way to the game, just cried my eyes out.It's very scary. It's uplifting, too, but so scary. And then... I'm bitching because my breakfast is cold?
— Charles Barkley, I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It
I've realized that everything is about relationships. I've witnessed that ultimately you can't take what you don't give because there is a master bookkeeper out there who keeps accounts balanced. This fundamental link between man, plants, and the earth has been documented since the dawn of civilization.
— Vivian Elisabeth Glyck, 12 Lessons on Life I Learned from My Garden: Spiritual Guidance from the Vegtable Patch
don't turn over rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live underneath them.
— Janet Fitch, White Oleander
It's time to stop following the yellow brick road, use your God given brain, and quit chasing rainbows, because the truth is life's hard, but can be oh so sweet when you choose to own it.
— L.M. Fields
I know it isn't right to put the blame easily on anyone. But, won't you feel sad if you know that those people are the reasons of your misery? Those people whom you never expected to be like this. But still, i hope that someday i will say "thanks to you i didn't get there so i can be as great and successful as i am right now
— Amalia Azizah
If Gone With the Wind has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as able, strong, and brave, go under? It happens in every upheaval. Some people survive; others don't. What qualities are in those who fight their way through triumphantly that are lacking in those that go under? I only know that survivors used to call that quality 'gumption.' So I wrote about people who had gumption and people who didn't.
— Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
No, you cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them from building nests in your hair.
— D.B. Patterson
About winning and losing: It isn't important, what really counts is how you play the game. About playing the game: PLAY TO WIN!
— Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
If you really want things to change, you have to get involved. Little strokes fell big oaks, you know.
— Wendelin Van Draanen, Sammy Keyes And the Dead Giveaway
There is so much I could say about myself, but I wish you know only this; at times I may be bitter, at times I may be sweet; do not judge me on one character or the other. I have more facets than a jewel, I ask that you understand all of me before you judge me. No one side of my personality is bigger than another, just as no one emotion claims me all the time.
— K.K. Cook
It's the hardest thing in the world to put yourself in someone else's place, try to really feel what they feel, figure out why they do the things they do. Especially when it's easier to stick a label on something. Or someone.
— David Baldacci, Reader's Digest Select Editions, Volume 319, 2012 #1: One Summer / Cast Into Doubt / Casting About / The Lion
God put us on this carnival ride, We close our eyes not knowing were it will take us next
— Carrie Underwood
Hind sight is 20/20.
— Nicholai machiovelli
Risk is the universe's way of pushing us to become more than what we are. Risk is faith at the edge. Risk is the pulsating nature of life.
— Sarah Strohmeyer, The Cinderella Pact
Never give up when you really believe in something... just do you ...............
— Rose Elisabeth Sama
What I can do, I will do. What I can't do, I will surrender to the one that can.
— E'yen A. Gardner
I advise, however, moderation in this task of setting goals, or else risk becoming tangled up in a Gordian knot of life’s many disappointments.
— Andrew Levkoff, A Mixture of Madness
Another page turns on the calendar, April now, not March..........I am spinning the silk threads of my story, weaving the fabric of my world...I spun out of control. Eating was hard. Breathing was hard. Living was hardest.I wanted to swallow the bitter seeds of forgetfulness...Somehow, I dragged myself out of the dark and asked for help.I spin and weave and knit my words and visions until a life starts to take shape.There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.I am thawing.
— Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy...
— Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town
— Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Timequake
Recovery feels like shit. It didn't feel like I was doing something good
—  it felt like I was giving up. It feels like having to learn how to walk all over again.
The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help, they have no hope.
— Russell Brand
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.
— Mark Twain
Your best days are ahead of you. The movie starts when the guy gets sober and puts his life back together
—  it doesn't end there.
I'm learning how to taste everything. 
— Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.
— Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
One day at a time, sweet Jesus. Whoever wrote that one hadn’t a clue. A day is a fuckin’ eternity
— Roddy Doyle, Paula Spencer
Real hope combined with real action has always pulled me through difficult times. Real hope combined with doing nothing has never pulled me through.
— Jenni Schaefer, Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life
It's crazy, how similar we are. Here's both of us, working through our stuff, trying to make something positive out of something really bad.
— Jenny Han, Fire with Fire
Everything is, the way it is, for a reason. Or it isn't. Or neither. Or both. It's so hard to tell. It's so hard to tell you're a mile away by the Luke in your eye.
— Alistair McHarg, Invisible Driving
I felt empty and sad for years, and for a long, long time, alcohol worked. I’d drink, and all the sadness would go away. Not only did the sadness go away, but I was fantastic. I was beautiful, funny, I had a great figure, and I could do math. But at some point, the booze stopped working. That’s when drinking started sucking. Every time I drank, I could feel pieces of me leaving. I continued to drink until there was nothing left. Just emptiness.
— Dina Kucera, Everything I Never Wanted to Be
We've been there and come back. When you fall in the pit, people are supposed to help you up. But you have to get up on your own. We'll take your arms, but you have to get your legs underneath you and stand.
— Bucky Sinister, Get Up: A 12-Step Guide to Recovery for Misfits, Freaks, and Weirdos
We take action when we have the honesty to admit that things are still broken, despite our best efforts otherwise. We take action when we hold ourselves continually open to new techniques, remaining resolutely receptive to new sources of support and new feeds of information. We take action when we are willing, in each new moment, to try again.
— Shannon Cutts, Beating Ana: How to Outsmart Your Eating Disorder and Take Your Life Back
They got drunk and high on a regular basis, but this is a vestige of youth that you either quit while you're young or you become an addict if you don't die. If you are the Old Guy In The Punk House, move out. You have a substance abuse problem.
— Bucky Sinister, Get Up: A 12-Step Guide to Recovery for Misfits, Freaks, and Weirdos
Spurred by Amy’s death I’ve tried to salvage unwilling victims from the mayhem of the internal storm and am always, always just pulled inside myself.
— Russell Brand
All humans at some time experience injustice, assault, disqualification, invasion and betrayal. No person is completely shielded. We need not trace our family trees very far back or study for long what life was like for our forbears to uncover humanity's abusiveness. The inherited scars of our multigenerational families exist in our family systems as we know them today. The abuse of the past often exists as the shame of today, and the shame is perpetuated through our patterns of interaction.
— Merle A. Fossum, Facing Shame - Families in Recovery
But it is hazardous and, I believe, counterproductive to become frozen in time by an obsession with past wrongs and errors.
— George S. McGovern, Terry: My Daughter's Life-and-Death Struggle with Alcoholism
Clinicians have told me that our emotional is arrested at the age that an eating disorder takes control of our lives. After we recover, we pick up emotionally where we left off at that age.
— Jenni Schaefer, Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life
Myth: US housing market is in recovery. Fact: Big banks have been hiding their bloated home inventory, seized by virtue of home foreclosures.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
I'm here to tell you that if you get broken, it's possible to put yourself back together. I'm here to tell you that if you get lost, it's possible that a light will come, dancing, on the horizon, to lead you home.
— Nick Lake, Hostage Three
Anorexia cannot be cured by treating the physical symptoms alone
—  it is the mind which must be treated.
Just as others pray daily, you should think to yourself daily about what you can do to be closer to this Ideal Image. Think: "What can I do today to make my life better?" "What can I do to become more like my Ideal Image?
— Bucky Sinister, Get Up: A 12-Step Guide to Recovery for Misfits, Freaks, and Weirdos
In truth, Serenus, I have for a long time been silently asking myself to what I should liken such a condition of mind, and I can find nothing that so closely approaches it as the state of those who, after being released from a long and serious illness, are sometimes touched with fits of fever and slight disorders, and, freed from the last traces of them, are nevertheless disquieted with mistrust, and, though now quite well, stretch out their wrist to a physician and complain unjustly of any trace of heat in their body. It is not, Serenus, that these are not quite well in body, but that they are not quite used to being well; just as even a tranquil sea will show some ripple, particularly when it has just subsided after a storm. What you need, therefore, is not any of those harsher measures which we have already left behind, the necessity of opposing yourself at this point, of being angry with yourself at that, of sternly urging yourself on at another, but that which comes last -confidence in yourself and the belief that you are on the right path, and have not been led astray by the many cross- tracks of those who are roaming in every direction, some of whom are wandering very near the path itself. But what you desire is something great and supreme and very near to being a god - to be unshaken. 
— Seneca, The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters
Would they be cheered by their recovery, or marked for life by their trauma?
— Dan Wells, Ruins
The good news, however, is that, also contrary to popular belief, full and lasting recovery from an eating disorder is possible.
— Lynn Crilly
He still heard his mother's voice--"Davey"--rise like whisper-dust from unseen corners in the house, but it was no longer the only voice he heard. His ears were also filled with the voices of others--his father and Primrose and Refrigerator John and his grandmother. Of course, all of their words for a thousand years could not fill the hole left by his mother, but they could raise a loving fence around it so he didn't keep falling in.
— Jerry Spinelli, Eggs
Eradication of pain, deviant, or oppositional behaviors does not indicate healing; however, it can signify successful conditioning.
— Kierra C.T. Banks
Expunction of pain, deviant, or oppositional behaviors does not indicate healing; however, it can signify successful conditioning.
— Kierra C.T. Banks
Eradication of pain, "deviant", or "oppositional" behaviors does not indicate healing; however, it can signify successful conditioning.
— Kierra C.T. Banks
I’m not bilingual, but I am fluent in therapists’ jargon.
— Kris Kidd, Down for Whatever
You are the writer, producer, and director of your own mind programs.
— Elizabeth Bohorquez
Now I’msober and Irealize, Ididn’t drink toescape the world,I drank to escapemyself
— Phil Volatile, Crushed Black Velvet
There is no one way to recover and heal from any trauma. Each survivor chooses their own path or stumbles across it.
— Laurie Matthew, Behind Enemy Lines
Is the person I was before dead? Or will the worst things that happened to me eventually get diluted by the rest of my life, become just a part of the story that I've always been writing?
— Rebecca Rosenblum, So Much Love
I want to just go back to being the person I was before, but you can't stop being the person you've become. You just have to keep going forward.
— Rebecca Rosenblum, So Much Love
if you are always drinking, you should probably never drive
— Dmitry Dyatlov
Seen like that, he was just a shadow; darkness, a nothingness, before real power. The men of this world, epics included, would pass from time. I might be a worm to him, but he was a worm himself in the grand scheme of the universe.
— Brandon Sanderson, Steelheart
That’s the only thing you can do with a mess. Start cleaning it up, a little at a time.
— Lisa Wingate, The Sea Glass Sisters
Healing hurt.
— Ryan Graudin, Blood for Blood
Like daffodils in the early days of spring, my neurons were resprouting receptors as the winter of the illness ebbed.
— Susannah Cahalan, Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
My mom doesn't say anything. I don't say anything. Neither of us knows yet what you should say when rape victims blame themselves: 'It was not your fault.' It was not your fault, even if you were drunk, even if you were wearing a low-cut minidress, even if you were out walking alone at night, even if you were on a date with the rapist and kind of liked him but didn't want to have sex with him.
— Joanna Connors, I Will Find You: A Reporter Investigates the Life of the Man Who Raped Her
At this very moment, you may be saying to yourself that you have any number of admirable qualities. You are a loyal friend, a caring person, someone who is smart, dependable, fun to be around. That’s wonderful, and I’m happy for you, but let me ask you this: are you being any of those things to yourself?
— Phillip McGraw
Another question I am frequently asked is, "What do you mean by recovery?" It has taken me a while to answer that one. I had been depending on other people's definitions of recovery until I developed one that worked for me (just as you must come to one that makes sense for you.) Mine is simple. For me, it is about fre
— Mike Lew, Victims No Longer: Men Recovering from Incest and Other Sexual Child Abuse
As long as everything stayed the same, it seemed possible for him to come back. As long as everything was the way he had left it, his place was open for him. But if things changed beyond a certain point, his place in my life began to close, he could not reenter it, or if he did, he would have to enter in a new way.
— Lydia Davis, The End of the Story
Why lie, Robert? Why lie? You know that lying is the alcoholics kryptonite, you can’t afford it, the reasonable voice in his head screamed.
— Gudjon Bergmann, The Meditating Psychiatrist Who Tried to Kill Himself
The notion that life could be any different - that it could be better - becomes inconceivable. You forget how good it was to be normal. Worst of all, you come to believe that you prefer it this way.
— Emma Woolf, An Apple a Day: A Memoir of Love and Recovery from Anorexia
Many of us learned that keeping busy…kept us at a distance from our feelings...Some of us took the ways we busied ourselves—becoming overachievers & workaholics—as self esteem…But whenever our inner feeling did not match our outer surface, we were doing ourselves a disservice…If stopping to rest meant being barraged with this discrepancy, no wonder we were reluctant to cease our obsessive activity.
— Maureen Brady, Beyond Survival: A Writing Journey for Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse
A suicide is tragic because nothing interrupted it.
— Emma Woolf, An Apple a Day: A Memoir of Love and Recovery from Anorexia
Basically, when it comes to women, both aging and eating are somehow shameful.
— Emma Woolf, An Apple a Day: A Memoir of Love and Recovery from Anorexia
Everything was so broken, but it would heal. Saxonia will heal. Hollownot will heal. Everything will heal.I was broken. I will heal.It is certainty that destroys the souls of men.
— J.M. McDermott, Straggletaggle
You gwyne to have considerable trouble in yo' life, en considerable joy. Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.
— Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Perhaps that’s the best way to recover, to return to the way things were before as quickly as we can. We won the Great Battle, so nothing needs to change.
— Erin Hunter, Dovewing's Silence
There would be a general reclaiming of fallen buttons and misplaced spectacles, of neighbors and kin, till time and error and accident were undone, and the world became comprehensible and whole.
— Marilynne Robinson
Its front porch had a beautiful view of the water and invisible screening to keep the jellybugs and stinkmoths at bay. I wove mats for the floors and painted sincere, klutzy seascapes for the walls. Piece by piece I assembled chef-quality cooking equipment, learned how to use it, and achieved a state of domestic competence that would have astounded my long-suffering ex-wife, Joanna.
— Julian May, Orion Arm
Life is too short to have debts and doubts, Pay the bills, no regrets, be up and about.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, The Tao of Physical and Spiritual
Fracture lines etch the surface of the glass box as if a body fell from the sky and landed on it. He doesn't hear the impact, can't smell the blood.
— Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
Without struggle there is no progress.
— Allison Woyiwada
After the brain surgery, I started the hard process of recovery.
— Amy Rankin, Nobody Thought I Could Do It, But I Showed Them, and So Can You!
admitted I was powerless over food,that my life had become uninhabitable.Sure, there are folks who speak of livesunmanageable, but my life was always that!It took more to push me to the admission.I had a Hell Year when I turned 50and it took me another ten to reach the crevice,to fall off the edge, to give up and gowhere a counselor had directed me for years,to the rooms of recovery. I knew she was rightbut I wasn’t broken enough to go. Unmanageable,I could life in. Uninhabitable I couldn’t.I fought it for nigh on sixty yearsbut when I finally couldn’t keep on pretending,continue making do, I found what I needed,what I could finally accept, and soar out of thereto recovery.
— Barbara B. Rollins
I learned that if I always performed a rescue, the woman never learned to lean on God…..I now realize that I shouldn’t work harder at a person’s recovery than she is willing to work.
— Pam Farrel, Woman of Influence: Ten Traits of Those Who Want to Make a Difference
At its heart, Codependency is a set of behaviors developed to manage the anxiety that comes when our primary attachments are formed with people who are inconsistent or unavailable in their response to us. Our anxiety-based responses to life can include over-reactivity, image management, unrealistic beliefs about our limits, and attempts to control the reality of others to the point where we lose our boundaries, self-esteem, and even our own reality. Ultimately, Codependency is a chronic stress disease, which can devastate our immune system and lead to systemic and even life-threatening illness.
— Mary Crocker Cook, Awakening Hope. A Developmental, Behavioral, Biological Approach to Codependency Treatment.
Food is something I am going to have to face at least three times a day for the rest of my life. And I am not perfect. But one really bad day does not mean that I am hopeless and back at square one with my eating disorder. Olympic ice skaters fall in their quest for the gold. Heisman Trophy winners throw interceptions. Professional singers forget the words. And people with eating disorders sometimes slip back into an old pattern. But all of these individuals just pick themselves back up and do the next right thing. The ice skater makes the next jump. The football player throws the next pass. The singer finishes the song. And I am going to eat breakfast.
— Jenni Schaefer, Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too
As much as we strive towards the light, we still want to be embraced by the shadow.
— Zoran Drvenkar
Sometimes I struggle. Sometimes I falter. Sometimes I live in gray. But always I remember the yarrow you’ve grown in the spaces of my rib cage. I now love with roses from my heart, with lilacs from my mouth.
— Elijah Noble El, The Age of Recovery
Recovery is most often associated with some type of illness, addiction or mental health issue. I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about the struggle of getting back to where you were before the sound went out.
— Suzette R. Hinton
Rest, Recreated, Refreshed and Refuel!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Suddenly, she doesn't want to die. She has no real reason not to, no sudden revelation, except that it's equally pointless to die as not to die. Why doesn't she die? She lives because she's meant to live, because she's already alive and it's comparatively easy to stay that way. She lives because, even though she doesn't know what it is, there must be a reason why she's here in the first place. She lives because either she's not as brave as all the dead girls who've gone before her, or she's actually braver - it's hard to tell.
— A.M. Homes
Never feel this bad again. Never come back to this place, where only a knife will do. Live a gentle and kind life. Don't do things that make you want to hurt yourself. Whatever you do, every day, remember this - then steer away from here.
— Caitlin Moran
Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving.
— David Levithan, Every Day
Anyhow, even though I might go out on a date with a boy, emotionally I just wouldn't be able to concentrate. I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string. I'd be thinking about one unrelated thing after another. I don't know, I guess finally I want to be alone a little while longer. And I want to let my thoughts wander freely. In that sense, I guess, I'm probably still "on the road to recovery.
— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle