Steve Maraboli

"Your life begins to change the day you take responsibility for it."

"Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't."

"You are beautiful. Your beauty, just like your capacity for life, happiness, and success is immeasurable. Day after day, countless people across the globe get on a scale in search of validation of beauty and social acceptance.

Get off the scale! I have yet to see a scale that can tell you how enchanting your eyes are. I have yet to see a scale that can show you how wonderful your hair looks when the sun shines its glorious rays on it. I have yet to see a scale that can thank you for your compassion, sense of humor, and contagious smile. Get off the scale because I have yet to see one that can admire you for your perseverance when challenged in life. 

It's true, the scale can only give you a numerical reflection of your relationship with gravity. That's it. It cannot measure beauty, talent, purpose, life force, possibility, strength, or love. Don't give the scale more power than it has earned. Take note of the number, then get off the scale and live your life. You are beautiful!"

Jules Zimmer

"We all like to stay on the little crutches that are familiar."

Marianne Williamson

"Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself."

"Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it."

"The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self."

Incubus

"If not now, when?"

Lao Tzu

"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; to do so only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like."

"Not seeking, not expecting, she is present, and can welcome all things."

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

"Every 'no' is a 'yes' to something."

"No matter how strange things get, know that with every breath, you are becoming that which you have always been."

"In our need to be somebody, we often forget that we are somebody."

"It doesn't matter how you conceive of divinity. It only matters that you see it in everything, including yourself."

Ernest Hemingway

"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them."

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

"The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it."

William Arthur Ward

"When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves."

Rebecca West

“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.” 

Lauren Oliver [Before I Fall]

"I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people - to see one tiny part of them and confuse it with the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa."

William Shakespeare [Henry V]

"All things are ready, if our mind be so."

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"That is part of the beauty of literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely or isolated from anyone. You belong."