Wednesday 29 November 2017

25 Quotes I Love


I used to live for quotes. Honestly, I was that girl on Xanga when I was fourteen/fifteen with hundreds of quotes saved. I’m always the first to reblog a quote on Tumblr. I just find that quotes describe how you’re feeling without having to put it into your words yourself. Therefore, I thought I would share some that I’ve stumbled upon lately that I love.

Have some fire. Be unstoppable. Be a force of nature. Be better than anyone here, and don’t give a damn what anyone thinks.
– Grey’s Anatomy

Sometimes you’re 25 and standing in the kitchen of your house making breakfast and brewing coffee that for some reason is really getting to your heart. You’re just standing there thinking about going to work and picking up your dry cleaning. And also more exciting things like books you’re reading and trips you plan on taking and relationships that are springing into existence. Or fading from your memory, which is far less exciting. And suddenly you just don’t feel at home in your skin or in your house and just want to be home, but “mom’s” probably won’t feel like home anymore either. There used to be the comfort of a number in your phone and ears that listened everyday and arms that were never for anyone else. But just to calm you down when you started feeling trapped in a five-minute period where nostalgia is too much and thoughts of this person you are feel foreign. When you realize that you’ll never be this young again, but this is the first time you’ve ever been this old. When you can’t remember how you got from sixteen to here and all the same feel like sixteen is just as much of a stranger to you now. The song is over. The coffee’s done. You’re going to breathe in and out. You’re going to be fine in about five minutes.
 – Anonymous

Love someone who is kinder to you than you are to yourself.
– Nikita Gill, Things I Wish I Had Learned Sooner  

It’s a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.
– Daniel Kahneman

Get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
– Abraham Heschel, Gratitude

When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.
– Alexander Den Heijer

I think there is a certain age, for women, when you become fearless. It may be a different age for every woman, I don’t know. It’s not that you stop fearing things: I’m still afraid of heights, for example. Or rather, of falling – heights aren’t problem. But you stop fearing life itself. It’s when you become fearless in that way that you decide to live. Perhaps it’s when you come to realization that the point of life isn’t to be rich, or secure, or even be to be loved – to be any of the things that people usually think is the point. The point of life is to live as deeply as possible, to experience fully. And that can be done in so many ways.
 – Theodora Goss

Bad things are always going to happen in life. People will hurt you, but you can’t use that as an excuse to hurt someone back.
– Anonymous

For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there’s nothing else. It’s here, and you’d better decide to enjoy it or you’re going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.
– Lev Grossman, The Magicians

I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.
– Oscar Wilde

So plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
– Jorge Luis Borges

Happiness begins with you. Not with your relationship, your friends, or your job. But with you.
– Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love and a Dash of Sass

You’ll always care about your first love. That doesn’t make you crazy, it just makes you human. When relationships end, it’s not cut and dry. You carry everyone you’ve ever loved into every relationship thereafter.
– Ryan O’Connell

Stay close to people who feel like sunlight.
– Xan Oku

Raise your daughters to shout, to scream, to hold their heads up high for being themselves before society tries to teach them how to silence themselves, how to wear shame like it is a second skin. Let them taste rebellion from the moment they are born and watch them become flames to start a revolution.
– Nikita Gill

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.
– William Shakespeare

You are not a reflection of the people who can’t love you.
– Caitlyn Siehl

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
– Theodore Isaac

You are never too old to set another goal or dream another dream.
 – C.S. Lewis

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
– Marcel Proust

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore.
 – Lady Gaga

Remember that children, marriages and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
– H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Here’s to the strong women. May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them.
 – Anonymous

You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.
– Rumi

Be alone. Eat alone, take yourself on dates, sleep alone. In the midst of this you will learn about yourself. You will grow, you will figure out what inspires you, you will curate your own dreams, your own beliefs, your own stunning clarity, and when you do meet the person who makes your cells dance, you will be sure of it, because you are sure of yourself.
– Bianca Sparacino


What’s your favourite quote? Let me know in the comments!

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