Woman

“If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.”

~Emile Zola

my kind of magic

“Take a chance because you never know how absolutely perfect something could turn out to be.”

— Unknown

“Just because someone doesn’t love you the way you want them to, doesn’t mean they don’t love you with all they have.”

-Unknown

“The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them.”

— Michel de Montaigne

You will shine...

“You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.”

-T.S. Eliot

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”

- Andre Gide

“Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don’t. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.”

-Philip Andrew Adams

Stock your mind

“You have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”

- Frank McCourt

No one has all the answers

“In your life, you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you. And then there are some you wish you never had to think about again. But you do.”

— The Wonder Years

“The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.”

-Amelia Barr

“It’s better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”

-Eleanor Roosevelt

“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.”

— Lou Holt

Native wisdom

Daily Dose

“The only way to get what you really want, is to know what you really want. And the only way to know what you really want, is to know yourself. And the only way to know yourself, is to be yourself. And the only way to be yourself is to listen to your heart.”

— Mike Dooley

“You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.”

— Mary Manin Morrissey

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Everyone of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads—at least that’s where I imagine it—there’s a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in a while, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you’ll live forever in your own little private library.”

— Haruki Murakami

“You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.”

— Albert Camus

“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.”

— Johnny Cash