“Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.”— Dalai Lama XIV
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““Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.””— H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
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“When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.”— Henry David Thoreau
“If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”— Anaïs Nin
“Life has many ways of testing a person’s will - either by having nothing happen at all, or by having everything happen at once.”— Paulo Coelho
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“So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life’s a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.”— Marilyn Monroe
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“He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace.”— Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych
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“It’s not my responsibility to be beautiful, I’m not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.”— Warsan Shire
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“How wonderful it is, to be silent with someone.”— Kurt Tucholsky
““Why should you worry about the future? You don’t even know the present properly. Take care of the present and the future will take care of itself.””— Ramana Maharshi
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“Rest, nature, books, music… such is my idea of happiness.”— Leo Tolstoy
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““If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.””— Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82
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““To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.””— Thich Nhat Hanh (via goodreadss)