#725 - “Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.” — Rumi
#723 - “Security is a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” — Helen Keller
#719 - “Optimism is the ability to focus on where we’re going, not where we’re coming from.” — Simon Sinek
#664 - “Nobody else knows your reason for being. You do. Your bliss guides you to it. When you follow your bliss, when you follow your path to joy, your conversation is of joy, your feelings are of joy - you’re right on the path of that which you intended when you came forth into this physical body.” — Esther Abraham Hicks
#633 - “There will be a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.” — Louis L’Amour
#595 - “Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.” — Ram Dass
#576 - “The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be.” — Leo Babauta
#572 - “We are all so worried about what everyone thinks that we limit what’s impossible. We also convince ourselves that everyone knows. It’s called “imaginary audience syndrome” and it’s why the smallest pimple feels like a crater on your face.” — Mel Robbins
#498 - “So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we’ll never know most of them. But even if don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.” — Stephen Chbosky
#469 - “But the struggles make you stronger and the changes make you wise. And happiness has its own way of taking its sweet time.” — Gary Allen
