The soul always knows what to do to heal itself, the challenge is to silence the mind.

To develop a self, one must exercise choice and learn from the consequences of those choices; if the only thing you are taught is to comply, you have little way of knowing what you like and want.

Bruce D. Perry, The Boy Who Was Raised As a Dog

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Stephen Hawking

If you light a lamp for someone else it will also brighten your path.

People’s opinions of us will always change, but how we see ourselves will stay with us forever.

Ralph Smart

Being positive isn’t pretending that everything is good. It’s seeing the good in everything.

The less you respond to negative people the more peaceful your life will become.

Zig Ziglar

The person you’re meant to be with will never have to be chased, begged or given an ultimatum.

Mandy Hale

It’s amazing how 3 minutes with the wrong person feels like an eternity, yet 3 hours with the right one, feels like only a moment.

If flowers can grow through blankets of melting snow, there is hope for me too.

Tyler Knott Gregson, Haiku on Love

If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.

Lemony Snicket

It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

Chuck Palahniuk

Sometimes you put up walls – not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

Socrates

I hope there are days when your coffee tastes like magic, your playlist makes you dance, strangers make you smile, and the night sky touches your soul. I hope there are days when you fall in love with being alive.

Brooke Hampton

Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that’s going to help you to grow.

Caroline Myss

Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.

Lisa Kleypas

If speaking kindly to plants can help them grow, just imagine what speaking kindly to humans can do.

Beware of destination addiction: The idea that happiness is in the next place, the next job, or even with the next partner. Until you give up the idea that happiness is somewhere else, it will never be where you are.