Maya Angelou

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Aurthur O'Shaughnessy

We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams; -
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams;
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world fore ever, it seems.

Maya Angelou

You did what you knew how to do, and when you knew better, you did better.

Janet Fitch

Whenever she thought she could not feel more alone, the universe peeled back another layer of darkness.

Unknown

The future is more than another today. Once you get there, you have more yesterdays and fewer tomorrows to look forward to.

Shel Silverstein

Listen to the MUSN’Ts, child
Listen to the DON’Ts
Listen to the SHOULDN’Ts
The IMPOSSIBLEs, the WON’Ts
Listen to the NEVER HAVEs
Then listen close to me—
Anything can happen, child,
ANYTHING can be.

Unknown

If you want to know where your heart is, look to where your mind goes when it wanders.

Asha Tyson

Your journey has molded you for your greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don’t think that you’ve lost time. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now and now is right on time.

Tori Amos

It’s about realizing, painfully, you’ve kept that voice inside yourself, locked away from even yourself. And you step back and see that your jailer has changed faces. You realize you’ve become your own jailer.

Neutral Milk Hotel

But for now we are young
Let us lay in the sun
And count every beautiful thing we see.

Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?"
Well, sweetheart, I tell her, yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.

House

You don't get what you deserve. You get what you get.

Ayn Rand

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.

Turkish Proverb

He who lives on hope dies of starvation.

Kensington

Scales only have the power which we bestow upon them. Imagine if I said “My self-worth is determined by the toaster.

Joseph Campbell

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Stephen Chbosky

And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are.

J.K. Rowling

And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Charles Bukowski

the best often die by their own hand
just to get away,
and those left behind
can never quite understand
why anybody
would ever want to
get away
from
them