“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.”
—Orison Swett Marden
June 2011
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“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned the hard way that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, or end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s to happen next.”
—Gilda Radner
“…people universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that maybe will descend upon you like fine weather if you’re fortunate enough. But that’s not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. If you don’t, you will leak away your innate contentment. It’s easy enough to pray when you’re in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainments.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray and Love
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
—Aristotle
“As for hope, I will never lose that. Hope is like the sun. Even at night when it disappears, it’s still shining just as bright somewhere else…and like that sun, it will come back again and turn the sky golden. Hope is all we have sometimes. Especially with love…”
—Jason Reeves (via heavyheartsgrowlighter)
“I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you’re trying to be a writer. Because it’s the only apprenticeship we have. It’s the only way of learning how to write a story.”
—John Green (via papercrushed)
“No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.”
—Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher (via heavyheartsgrowlighter)
“You are responsible for your life. You are responsible for the energy you bring to yourself and others.”
—Oprah
“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
—Buddha (via justbesplendid)
“May you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true. May you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you. May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong. May you stay forever young.”
—Bob Dylan (via justbesplendid)
“Go easy on you. When things go wrong, remind yourself it’s your first time through this life.”
—John Mayer
“He stared at her, knowing with certainty that he was falling in love. He pulled her close and kissed her beneath a blanket of stars, wondering how on earth he’d been lucky enough to find her.”
—Nicholas Sparks (The Last Song)
