“The bittersweet side of appreciating life's most precious moments is the unbearable awareness that those moments are passing.”
— Marc Parent
“Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.”
— Rumi
“Good.”
— Jocko Willink
“Remember, words have power. Precision in language reflects precision in thought. Be precise.”
— Jack Carr
“It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later.”
— Bob Goff
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
— Albert Einstein
“It doesn’t matter how slow you go as long as you don’t stop.”
— Confucius
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.”
— J.K. Rowling
“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
— Buddha
“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.”
— Maya Angelou
“And you ask ‘What if I fall?’ Oh but my darling, what if you fly?”
— Erin Hanson
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“Press on – nothing can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent.”
— Calvin Coolidge
“Respond to every call that excites your spirit”
— Rumi
“Your pride is costing you your peace and freedom.”
— R.C.
“It is not length of life, but depth of life.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.”
— Pliny the Elder
“It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting.”
— Ellen DeGeneres
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.”
— Pliny the Elder
“Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“Every adversity, every failure, every heartbreak, carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”
— Napoleon Hill