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!
