quotes-to-live-by

You are the only one who knows what is best for yourself. Find it IN you.

If you are in hard times, ask yourself: __hat would this problem and my life mean to people two hundred years from now?

In my experience, if they love you, they'll find their way to where you are. It just takes some people a little more time than others. If they don't? Well, sometimes you just have to accept that and move on. Candace watched tension etch Jameson's features. Relax, she said. You worry too much about things you can't control, sweetheart.

Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.

In my experience, if they love you, they'll find their way to where you are. It just takes some people a little more time than others. If they don't? Well, sometimes you just have to accept that and move on." Candace watched tension etch Jameson's features. "Relax," she said. "You worry too much about things you can't control, sweetheart.

Look for the hidden blessings in difficult situations.

It shouldn't take a life-changing event to spark change in your life.

I__ new to money. I spent most of my existence without it. I know how to live frugally. If we were to lose it all tomorrow, we__ change our hours, move out of the city, and make other adjustments, just like my parents did. Money removes many stressors, but it has not changed my level of happiness, nor who I am. It changes how I spend my time.

Don't live the same day over and over again and call that a life. Life is about evolving mentally, spiritually, and emotionally.

I find that love is confusing, lust is always definitive.

There is something strangely ecstatic, oddly fascinating and infinitely magnetic about unrequited love.

I love my job and the excitement and challenges it offers. But my job does not define me. If this job ended tomorrow I'd find another way to find that glorious feeling of accomplishment. No employer or career choice "made" me. I made me...

...the Cupcake Nation mentality - "Everyone's a winner!" - is so dangerous. When we try to protect the young from any vaguely uncomfortable ideas or encounters, we do them a grave disservice. Being tested by different viewpoints in my life, being sometimes offended or occasionally hurt, or even targeted, is a big part of what prepared me for the challenged I've faced in my career..,

The sum of our greatness lies not in asking__hat do I want to do?_ but rather __ho do I want to be?

But if something that was good morphs into something that's not good - and is not changing back - one has to stay conscious of that too. Settling for more is not an endgame - it's an active process. It means staying aware of one's surroundings, because "more" is a fluid concept. Life changes, and requires that we change too.

...If only Dad hadn't cheated. If only Mom had found a way to be happier. If only Nina hadn't run away. If only I could deal with it better. 'If' and 'only' are the two most useless words in the human vocabulary, Dr. Hakim had made a habit of saying. They should never be used together in a sentence, because they speak of something that's beyond your ability to change. A waste of energy.

Whatever it is that stirs your soul, listen to that. Everything else is just noise.

A woman does not become whole, until she has a baby.