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Don’t get discouraged by what you’re going through. Your time is coming. Where you are is not where you’re going to stay.

Appreciate what you have and let go of what you can’t change.

As long as you're trying your best, that's all that matters.

Commitment means staying loyal to what you said you were going to do, long after the mood you said it in has left you.

If it happens, it happens. Don't force it.

The only people worthy to be in your life are the ones that help you through the hard times and laugh with you after the hard times pass.

You can ask the universe for all the signs you want, but ultimately, we see what we want to see when we’re ready to see it.

Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will.

It's not what I have been through in my life that defines who I am, it's how I got through it that has made me the person I am today.

Some situations are not meant for you to change, but the situations are meant to change YOU for the better.

Believe what your heart tells you, not what others say. Your heart knows what's best.

As angry as you may be, hold your head high and be the better person.

Yesterday was yesterday, focus on today.

Appreciate the people that make you smile.

People enter our lives for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. We only get disappointed if we try to force relationships beyond their purpose.

Stay strong, be positive. We all struggle sometimes and that's okay.

I do not judge people by the scriptures of their faith or the scars from their past, I embrace them by the content of their hearts.

SLOMO from Josh Izenberg on Vimeo . Dr. John Kitchin quit a medical career to pursue his passion: skating along the boardwalk of San Diego’s Pacific Beach. He calls himself “Slomo.” This short documentary is a must watch.

Excuses are for people who don’t want it bad enough.

Marry someone you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

There was a girl who gave me (Leo Buscaglia) a poem, and she gave me permission to share it with you, and I want to do that because it explains about putting off and putting off and putting off - especially putting off caring about people we really love. She wants to remain anonymous, but she calls the poem,.

You need to look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself if you're truly happy. If you can't say yes right away, then it's time for change.

Don't waste time looking back on memories that hurt you.

Don't let the fear about your future consume your life. Just live for now and the right things will fall into place.

Always have the strength to carry on, no matter what.

Sometimes the right person was there all along, but you never saw them because the wrong person was in the way.

The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another person - without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other.

As I get older, what I used to call mistakes I now call experience.

Sometimes all we need is a fresh start.

Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.

In 1997, Fred Rogers was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Emmys.

The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us, but those who win battles we know nothing about.

Arguing with a fool is the easiest way to become one.

People who hurt you teach you the greatest lessons of life.

Learn to say "no" without explaining yourself.

I love you, but I’m mad at you is one of the most freeing, important things you can say in a stable relationship. Does that make sense? To know that you have the ability and the right to be mad at someone and know that it doesn’t mean things are over, that it doesn’t mean things are irreparable. That it just means I’m mad, but God, I love you. I love you. Now leave me alone.

The best things in life are usually found when you are not looking for them.

Let go of the things that hurt you in your past, they don't deserve any room in your future.

Today, be the reason someone feels loved.

Your journey will be much lighter and easier if you don't carry your past with you.

Today is a good day and I can do this!

Whenever you’re going through a bad day just remember, your track record for getting through bad days, so far, is 100%; and that’s pretty damn good.

Love yourself. Know your worth. Accept growth. Appreciate life. These things will help you through ANY situation.

Overthinking is the biggest cause of our unhappiness. Keep yourself occupied. Keep your mind off things that don't help you. Think positive.

You deserve to be with someone who can make you happy, not someone who will complicate your life.

Life becomes easier when you let go of the unneeded stress. If it's out of your control, don't let it worry you.

There are going to be lots of hard times in your life, but those hard times only make you stronger in the end.

Travel. As much as you can. As far as you can. As long as you can. Life is not meant to be lived in one place.

You're responsible for your own happiness.

My daughter recently passed away after a long battle in the children's hospital. Since she was in the hospital her whole life we never were able to get a photo without all her tubes. Can someone remove the tubes from this photo?

Don't worry about what people think of you. There will always be those who want to see you fail simply because they can't succeed.

You know what’s really, powerfully sexy? A sense of humor. A taste for adventure. A healthy glow. Hips to grab on to. Openness. Confidence. Humility. Appetite. Intuition. … Smart-ass comebacks. Presence. A quick wit. Dirty jokes told by an innocent-looking lady. … A storyteller. A genius. A doctor. A new mother. A woman who realizes how beautiful she is.

You are where you're supposed to be at this very moment. Every experience is part of God's divine plan.

The next time you find yourself reacting to someone, ask yourself why that person was powerful enough to get a reaction out of you? Don’t get upset with people or situations. Both are powerless without your reaction.

It's easy to forgive the mistakes of others, but it's hard to rebuild the trust that has been destroyed.

If they don’t know you personally, don’t take it personal.

Call your mother. Tell her you love her. Remember, you’re the only one who knows what her heart sounds like from the inside.

Dear God, if one day I lose my hope and purpose, give me confidence that your destiny is better than anything I ever dreamed.

No one can control what happened in the past. It's gone and it's over. Don’t allow the past to hinder you from getting to the future.

If you can't change the situation, see it differently. If you can't change people, understand them better.

Forget the days of troubles and remember the days of blessings.

Ignoring your passion is slow suicide. Never ignore what your heart pumps for. Mold your career around your lifestyle not your lifestyle around your career.

You can't be brave if you don't get hurt. You can't learn if you don't make mistakes. You can't be successful if you don't encounter failure.

You're not afraid to fall in love, you're just afraid of falling for the wrong person.

Things will get worse before they get better, but when they do, remember who put you down and who helped you up.

I forgive people, but that does NOT mean I trust them. I forgive them for ME, so I can let go and move on with my life.

I just want to go on more adventures. Be around good energy. Connect with people. Learn new things. Grow.

As you breathe right now, another person takes his last. We suggest you to stop complaining, and learn to live your life with what you got.

Saying "I was wrong" is nothing to be ashamed of. It's actually a declaration that you are wiser now than you were before!

Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.

Don't be scared to cut off jealous, hateful, disrespectful, and disloyal people. You're better off without them.

Don't compare your results to someone else's. You can never be another person, you can only be a better version of yourself.

Worrying about the future is tempting but useless. Do the best you can with what's right in front of you and the future will fall into place.

Life becomes more meaningful when you realize the simple fact that you'll never get the same moment twice.

So many people have so little but still find a way to be happy. It just goes to show that happiness comes from within you, not material things or people.

Never underestimate the power of prayer, because it may have been a prayer once that saved you.

Every single day you should wake up and commit yourself to becoming a better person.

You are part of a puzzle in someone's life. You may never know where you fit. But, someone's life may never be complete without you in it.

It’s not always about sex, sometimes the best type of intimacy is where you just lay back, laugh together at the stupidest things, hold each other, and enjoy each others’ company.

Don't let other people define your worth.

Take the time to really attend to a meal, a good book, a piece of music, or a sunrise. The point is to be fully present, to not be swept up into the distraction of a thousand voices, but to learn how to simply and fully attend to one. Then, when one enters enters back into the noisy world we live in, even the million colors together are more vibrant because you have learned to better see color in its essence. To truly see is to find hope. - The Crowd, The Critic and The Muse, M. Gungor.

The Buddhists say if you meet somebody and your heart pounds, your hands shake, your knees go weak, that’s not the one. When you meet your ‘soul mate’ you’ll feel calm. No anxiety, no agitation.

If it was meant to last, it would have.

You can't change the past, but you can make adjustments in your present for a better future.

I still have a long way to go but I'm already so far from where I started and I'm proud of that.

If a relationship doesn't make you a better person, it's the wrong one.

There are two reasons why people don’t talk about things; either it doesn’t mean anything to them, or it means everything.

Don’t expect anyone to understand your journey, especially if they haven’t walked your path.

If you look at the fact that you have a roof over your head, food to eat, that you are young and beautiful and live in a peaceful land, then NO, you have nothing to be sad about. But the fact is, we are not only a physical body, we have souls too, and sometimes our souls get sick. If you break a leg you don’t just say ‘I have no reason to have a broken leg’ and ignore it; you seek help. It’s the same when your soul gets hurt. Don’t apologize for being sad. - Rebecca (My doctor when I told her I had no reason to be sad)

Live in such a way that if someone spoke badly of you, no one would believe it.

A thousand disappointments in the past cannot equal the power of one positive action right now. Go ahead and go for it.

Life is a circle of Happiness, Sadness, Hard times, and good times. If you are going through hard times have faith that good times are on the way.

Happiness is when you feel good about yourself without the need for anyone else’s approval.

I will allow space for all the feelings my heart holds. I will not cower or hide from myself. It’s okay to feel the ugly messy things. It’s okay to feel the burning brilliance of beauty. It’s okay to feel the soft winds of happiness and the quiet bursts of loneliness. Its okay to feel it all. It’s okay to be myself, all of myself, not just the good.

Falling in love with yourself is as beautiful as any experience of love is. It’s learning to laugh at your awkward tendencies and smile at all your quirky habits. It’s learning to be grateful for the many sides you have - confident, crazy, shy, sexy, nerdy, angry, weird, and all the rest of them. It is realizing that you’re one of a kind and that you deserve to give the world the best person you can be. Falling in love with yourself is being happy in your life and knowing that in this one moment in time, you’re beautiful simply because you are you. - Kovie Biakolo, Falling In Love With Yourself.

When you’re young, thunderstorms seem scary. Like the sky is angry at you. But now that I’m older, something about its roar soothes me; it’s comforting to know that even nature needs to scream sometimes.

The moment you start clinging to things, you have missed the target - you have missed. Because things are not the target, you, your innermost being, is the target - not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you; not much money, but a rich you; not many things, but an open being, available to millions of things.

The hardest battle you will ever have to fight is between who you are now and who you want to be.

Success isn’t defined by your wallet. It’s defined by waking up with a smile on your face, knowing it’s going to be a great day.

Go to a coffee shop. Sit by the bar with the glass windows and look out. Look at all the people running to catch a train. All the girls with one too many shopping bags. All the couples too in love to care. Then you’ll see it - a bit of yourself in everyone. And somehow, sitting alone in a coffee shop had never felt so good.

Worrying is a waste of time. Good and bad things happen in life, you just have to keep living and not stress over what you can't control.

You'll never know how strong your heart is until you know how to forgive who broke it.

Maybe it won’t work out. But maybe seeing if it does will be the best adventure ever.

Note to self: every time you were convinced you couldn't go on, you did.

Never lose sight of what means the most to you.

Tomorrow will be a better day.

The timing in which people enter your life is very important.

Allow yourself small victories. Don’t deny giving yourself credit for accomplishing something, no matter how insignificant it might seem at the time.

Stop letting it bother you, just let it go. Your mind can only take so much.

You are not what has happened to you. You are what you choose to become.

Stop trying to point out the flaws of others and focus on correcting your own.

Let go of grudges. Forgiving people and moving on with life feels so much better than holding on to anger and resentment.

Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for something that's meant to come.

Don't expect only Happiness in your life. There are going to be dark times, but remember that stars need darkness in order to shine!

Keep asking yourself: What am I supposed to learn from this?

How other people treat you is their path; how you respond to them is yours.

Whenever you find yourself doubting how far you can go, just remember how far you’ve already come.

Do not allow negative people to turn you into one of them.

The greatest gift you can give someone is the space to be his or herself, without the threat of you leaving.

If it was good, remember it happily. If it was bad, remember it as a learning experience. Never regret; always improve.