“You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you won’t discover this until you are willing to stop banging your head against the wall of shaming and caging and fearing yourself.”
Geneen Roth (via elysium)
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Happiness is a state of noncontradictory Joy - a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your own destruction, not the joy of escaping from your mind, but of using your mind’s fullest power; not the joy of faking reality, but of achieving values that are real; not the joy of a drunkard, but of a producer.
Joy is not the absence of pain, intelligence is not the absence of stupidity, light is not the absence of darkness. Building is not done by abstaining from demolition.
” Ayn Rand (via camillenicole)“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.”
“Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death”
James F. Bymes
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
Anais Nin
“You cannot really be too concerned with what people think of you. You’re on you’re own adventure of growth and discovery. So it’s not always good to be who people think you are, especially if you subscribe to it as well … which is easily done, because then you don’t have to figure out who you are, you just ask somebody else.”
Tom Waits (via vashti)
“When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say thank you and grow.”
Shauna Niequist
(Source: thresca)
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept it; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely and with too high spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (via fitnessinprogress)
“Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.”
David Bly (via womenshealthmag)
“Never lose faith in yourself, and never lose hope; remember, even when this world throws its worst and then turns its back, there is still always hope.”
Pittacus Lore (Power of Six)
(Source: graceistumblng)
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
William Shakespeare (via rebellious-red)
(Source: itstinyambitions)
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
Neil Gaiman.
Dream dangerously, everyone.
(via boxofoctaves)
“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. That surrender, even the smallest act of giving up, stays with me. So when I feel like quitting, I ask myself, which would I rather live with?”
Lance Armstrong (via acomplexsituation)
“Why is there so much self-denigration and envy? Because every woman somehow finds herself, without her consent, entered into a beauty contest with every other woman. No matter how irrelevant to her goals, how inappropriate to her talents and endowments, or how ridiculous the comparison, women are always compared one to another and found wanting. Hillary Clinton’s haircuts…get as much press coverage as [her] words and actions.”
Nancy Etcoff, Survival of the Prettiest (via dancewiththedevilonyourback)
(Source: alwaysfaithfulterriblelizard)
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