Risk more than is required. Learn more than is normal. Be strong. Show courage. Breathe. Excel. Love. Lead. Speak your truth. Live your values. Laugh. Cry. Innovate. Simplify. Adore mastery. Release mediocrity. Aim for genius. Stay humble. Be kinder than expected. Deliver more than is needed. Exude passion. Shatter your limits. Transcend your fears. Inspire others by your bigness. Dream big but start small. Act now. Don't stop. Change the world.

-Robin Sharma, The Rules for Being Amazing 

If you can't dazzle them with your brilliance, baffle them with your bullshit!

-Unknown 

Success isn't defined by the dollar, my friend. It is defined by happiness.

-Jan Rae Licmo 

Either write something worth reading, or do something worth writing.

-Benjamin Franklin 

 

If nobody hates you, you're doing something wrong.

-Hugh Laurie as Dr. Gregory House, House M.D. (2004-2012)

"I'm bored" is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you're alive is amazing, so you don't get to say "I'm bored."

-Louis CK 

Sometimes I wish was 29 with my life figured out & sometimes I wish I was 5 with my whole life ahead of me and not a care in the world.

-Reyna Biddy 

You gotta love livin' baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.

-Frank Sinatra 

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but your thoughts about it.

-Eckhart Tolle 

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

-Pablo Picasso 

They can't hurt you unless you let them.

-John O'Callaghan 

Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and the thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don't see it yourself.

-Edmund Lee 

Nostalgia is a beautiful thing, but if you're not careful, you risk getting stuck in your own personal mythology.

-Hugo Pierre Leclercq 

People say "There are other fish in the sea." I say, "Fuck you, she was my sea."

-Jen Faulkner 

The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds the house, but the reader makes it a home.

-Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer, Between The Lines (2012)

You cannot control the depth of a wound another inflicts upon you.

-Lang Leav 

Every time you forgive, the universe changes.

-W. Paul Young 

I no longer have patience for certain things, not because I've become arrogant, but simply because I reached a point in my life where I do not want to waste more time with what displeases me or hurts me.

-Meryl Streep 

Expecting a trouble-free life because you are a good person is like expecting the bull not to charge you because you are a vegetarian.

-Jeffrey R. Holland 

It is time that we all see gender as a spectrum instead of two sets of opposing ideals. We should stop defining each other by what we are not, and start defining ourselves by who we are.

-Emma Watson, UN Women Goodwill Ambassador