Being truly happy in life involves you feeling more in control of the direction your life is going.
-- Deborah Day, Swimming Toward the Ocean: A Novel
Be passionate persistent in the pursuit of your dreams.
-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
If hate motivates your life, you'll never know the meaning of true love
-- Gaiven Clairmont, Mundahlia
I am thankful to my teachers who taught me how to read.
-- Lailah Gifty Akita, And the Walls Come Crumbling Down
Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang When life was sweet because you call’d them sweet?
-- Christina Rossetti, Poems of Christina Rossetti
You have to shrink yourself to fit into this little life with him.
-- Melissa Bank, Unwritten Rules
You make me lovely, and it's so lovely to be lovely to the one I love...
-- Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
Even when the number of seeds is filled in you: for he had weighed the world in the balance.
-- Compton Gage, The Book of Memory
Never compromise your values.
-- Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.
-- Pablo Neruda, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Change may not always bring growth, but there is no growth without change.
-- Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
What helps you persevere is your resilience and commitment.
To live with regret is to deny one's life of living.
-- Gillian Duce, Demons and Dangers: Magic and Mayhem - Book 4
When God takes out the trash, don't go digging back through it. Trust Him.
-- Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush
Love is give and never take.
-- imeragustin, The Blake Brothers
The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.
-- Aberjhani, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love
When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds.
-- Corrie ten Boom, Guilty Pleasures
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
-- Narcotics Anonymous
Know that love is truly timeless.
-- Mary M. Ricksen, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.
-- Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
