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  • #1
    Anne Lamott
    “Joy is the best makeup.”
    Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

  • #2
    “Look upward to your God for direction! Look inward into yourself and discover your talents! Look outward into your environment and get helped! Stop looking at one direction!”
    Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

  • #3
    “The secret to teamwork is an outward mindset.”
    Steve Young

  • #4
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #5
    Steve Maraboli
    “Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.”
    Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

  • #6
    Steve Maraboli
    “Happiness has to do with your mindset, not with outside circumstance.”
    Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

  • #7
    Kelly McGonigal
    “The biggest enemies of willpower: temptation, self-criticism, and stress. (...) these three skills —self-awareness, self-care, and remembering what matter most— are the foundation for self-control.”
    Kelly McGonigal, The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It

  • #8
    Kelly McGonigal
    “Meditation is not about getting rid of all your thoughts; it’s learning not to get so lost in them that you forget what your goal is. Don’t worry if your focus isn’t perfect when meditating. Just practice coming back to the breath, again and again.”
    Kelly McGonigal, The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do To Get More of It

  • #9
    Kelly McGonigal
    “When your mind is preoccupied, your impulses—not your long-term goals—will guide your choices.”
    Kelly McGonigal, The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do To Get More of It

  • #10
    Kelly McGonigal
    “The intelligent want self-control; children want candy. —RUMI”
    Kelly McGonigal, The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do To Get More of It

  • #11
    Kelly McGonigal
    “Ask your brain to do math every day, and it gets better at math. Ask your brain to worry, and it gets better at worrying. Ask your brain to concentrate, and it gets better at concentrating. Not”
    Kelly McGonigal, The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do To Get More of It

  • #12
    Kelly McGonigal
    “We all have the tendency to believe self-doubt and self-criticism, but listening to this voice never gets us closer to our goals.”
    Kelly McGonigal, The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do To Get More of It

  • #13
    Kelly McGonigal
    “Stress Helps You Learn and Grow”
    Kelly McGonigal, The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It

  • #14
    Kelly McGonigal
    “Feeling burdened rather than uplifted by everyday duties is more a mindset than a measure of what is going on in your life.”
    Kelly McGonigal, The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It

  • #15
    Steve Jobs
    “Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
    Steve Jobs

  • #16
    China Miéville
    “A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.”
    China Miéville, King Rat

  • #17
    Jodi Picoult
    “Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.”
    Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller

  • #18
    Jasmine Warga
    “I wonder if that's how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out.
    I don't want it to win.”
    Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

  • #19
    Woody Allen
    “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
    Woody Allen

  • #20
    Veronica Roth
    “Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #21
    Christopher Paolini
    “Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.”
    Christopher Paolini, Eldest

  • #22
    Dan    Brown
    “Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”
    Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

  • #23
    Emma Donoghue
    “Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
    Emma Donoghue, Room

  • #24
    Paulo Coelho
    “Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #25
    Nelson Mandela
    “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
    Nelson Mandela

  • #26
    John Green
    “I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #27
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #28
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #29
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #30
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols



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