Do What
You Can
“You
can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
―
C.S. Lewis
“Life
isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
―
George Bernard Shaw
“To
the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
―
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“Do
what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
―
Theodore Roosevelt
“Success
is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
―
Winston S. Churchill
“When
one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the
closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
―
Helen Keller
“So,
this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm
still trying to figure out how that could be.”
―
Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“Listen
to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the
impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me...
Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
―
Shel Silverstein
“And,
when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve
it.”
―
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“You
may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us.
And the world will live as one.”
―
John Lennon
“Our
deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are
powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens
us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?'
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small
does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that
other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as
children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light
shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are
liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
―
Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A
Course in Miracles"
“It’s
no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
―
Lewis Carroll
“It's
the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
―
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“What
you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't
change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
―
Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
“He’s
not perfect. You aren’t either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But
if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he
admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most
you can. He isn’t going to quote poetry, he’s not thinking about you every
moment, but he will give you a part of him that he knows you could break. Don’t
hurt him, don’t change him, and don’t expect for more than he can give. Don’t
analyze. Smile when he makes you happy, yell when he makes you mad, and miss
him when he’s not there. Love hard when there is love to be had. Because
perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.”
―
Bob Marley
“A
person's a person, no matter how small.”
―
Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!
“When
we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we
often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures,
have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and
tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or
confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can
tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of
our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
―
Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life
“You
can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you,
even if it hurts some people you love.”
―
Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
“Well-behaved
women seldom make history.”
―
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
“So
we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F.
Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
