Maybe you can keep me from ever being happy, but you're not gonna stop me from having fun - Ani Difranco

When I look down I just miss all the good stuff and when I look up I just trip over things. - Ani Difranco

Real integrity is doing the right thing knowing that nobody is going to know whether you did it or not. –Oprah Winfrey

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect, we take what we get and are thankful its no worse then it is. -Margaret Mitchell

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited" - Plutarch

"For me, the only things of interest are those linked to the heart." ~Audrey Hepburn

 “After one look at this planet, any visitor from outer space would say, ‘I want to see the manager’.” ~William S. Burroughs

"If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them"- Dalai Lama

"The question is not what you look at, but what you see." ~Thoreau

 ‎"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak." ~ Epictetus

"Don’t gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.” ~Bob Marley

"There is suffering in life, & there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for. " ~Paulo Coehlo

 ‎"Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, & always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will?" ~Marilyn Monroe

"There is suffering in life, & there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for. " ~Paulo Coehlo

 ‎"Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, & always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will?" ~Marilyn Monroe

 ‎"When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly
creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell? LEAP." ~Cynthia Hiemel

“Each one of you has something no one else has, or has ever had: your fingerprints, your brain, your heart. Be an individual. Be unique. Stand out. Make noise. Make someone notice. That's the power of individuals.”
~Jon Bon Jovi

 ‎"People think a soulmate is your perfect fit, & that's what everyone wants. But a true soulmate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life."~Elizabeth Gilbert

 "The worst thing about life? Never knowing what's gonna happen next. The best thing about life? Never knowing what's gonna happen next."-Unknown

 ‎"Being single used to mean that nobody wanted you. Now it means you’re pretty sexy, & you’re taking your time deciding how you want your life to be & who you want to spend it with." ~Sarah Jessica Parker

"We’ve taken the world apart," she says, "but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.
-Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.
--Win Borden

"When life is a bitter pill to swallow
You gotta hold on to what you believe
believe that the sun will shine tomorrow"-Bongiovi

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."- Walter Anderson

"I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all. No... not the artful postures of love, not playful and poetical games of love for the amusement of an evening, but love that... over-throws life. Unbiddable, ungovernable - like a riot in the heart, and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture. Love - like there has never been in a play."-Shakespeare in Love

"A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night" ~Marilyn Monro

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love." ~ Sophocle

"Pull off the mask and you will find your life...waiting to be made, chosen, woven, crafted. Your life, right now, today, is exploding with energy and power and detail and dimension, better than the best movie you have ever seen." ~Shauna Niequist

"I want a guy who takes charge, but lets me have my say once in a while. A good relationship is all about balance and chemistry."-Taylor Swift


"Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins"-Tuesdays with Morrie

"Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty, love; a burning curiosity to go with the action to see what it is all about, to go search for a pattern of meaning, to burn one's bridges because you're never going to go back anyway, and to live to the end."-unknown

"I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we're alone."-unknown

"Sometimes life goes by in a trickle and sometimes life goes by in a flood. It's in those rainy seasons you find out how well you can swim."-Lisa Wingate

"I welcome each new day with a hopeful expectancy that I, too, will rise above the ordinary. For I am not content to live a merely "normal" life or settle for an average existence. No, I am destined for more--much, much more."-Melody Carlson