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“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”
― George Harrison

“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”
― Théophile Gautier

“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”
― Nicholas Klein

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
― Albert Einstein

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
― Henry Ford

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
― Maya Angelou

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Happiness is a warm puppy.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.”
― Amanda Cross

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
― Anais Nin

“Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!”
― Maya Angelou

“In the end
these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did you let go?”
― Jack Kornfield, Buddha's Little Instruction Book

“I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it—I will love you through that, as well. If you don’t need the medication, I will love you, too. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
― Rumi

“The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”
― Jay McInerney, The Last of the Savages

“Love the life you live.
Live the life you love.”
― Bob Marley

“The future depends on what you do today.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...”
― John Lennon

“we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud”
― Gloria Steinem

“Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached. ”
― Simone Weil