Jane Ganberg > Jane's Quotes

“Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.”
― Rob Reiner

“...because a life without meaning, without drive or focus, without dreams or goals, isn't a life worth living.”
― Chris Colfer, Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

“You've got to show the world who you are before it tells you. Otherwise you become victim to someone you're not.”
― Chris Colfer, Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

“You don’t get to pick where you’re from, but you always have control of where you’re going.”
― Chris Colfer, Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

“Whoa, I've really got to stop making plans with fictional characters. It can't be healthy to develop relationships with people who don't exist.”
― Chris Colfer, Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

“From this day on, I refuse to let anyone bring me to a point where I can't take a horrible situation and spin it into something beneficial. I will never let anyone make me feel anything I don't want to feel again or rob me of the passions that make me who I am.”
― Chris Colfer, Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

“I was reading that lightning is a negative charge that comes from the friction that clouds carry. And since opposites attract, I would like to think that he was so positive the moment that he died, so happy, he pulled that bolt right out of the sky. I don’t know if that’s possible, but that’s what I believe.”
― Chris Colfer, Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

“My grandpa had a saying before he died: You can hope in one hand, shit in the other, and see which is filled first.”
― Chris Colfer, Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

“All great writers have issues with their hometowns; guess I'm not the exception.”
― Chris Colfer, Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

“Sometimes for your own sanity you just have to agree with idiocy.”
― Chris Colfer, Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

“It was one of those moments when you want to help, but don't know how. You think of a million things to say but are afraid you aren't the correct person to say them.”
― Chris Colfer, Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

“I remember wanting to laugh, but I held it in. I guess even then I thought laughing at someone's dream was one of the cruelest things one person could do to another.”
― Chris Colfer, Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

“You'd think after thousands of years on this planet the human race would have released some kind of handbook for teenagers, telling them how to get through teenagehood and get help for their issues. Yet here we are, struggling through it in our own ways.”
― Chris Colfer, Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. ”
― Dave Barry

“Just because I liked something at one point in time doesn’t mean I’ll always like it, or that I have to go on liking it at all points in time as an unthinking act of loyalty to who I am as a person, based solely on who I was as a person. To be loyal to myself is to allow myself to grow and change, and challenge who I am and what I think. The only thing I am for sure is unsure, and this means I’m growing, and not stagnant or shrinking.”
― Jarod Kintz, At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.”
― Sarah Dessen

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.”
― Dr. Roopleen

“Courage doesn't always roar, sometimes it's the quiet voice at the end of the day whispering 'I will try again tomorrow”
― Mary Anne Radmacher

“I believe in the power of imagination. I believe in the unexplained possibilities of the spirit. And I believe that the heart, like any other muscle, grows stiff if it is not exercised regularly.

I believe.”
― Eve Zibart, Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World For Grown-Ups

“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Get up," I tell myself, "You go and make your dreams a reality. There's no use staying home and whine every time life beats you down. There's a meadow in the deep forest; you just have to keep pushing through.”
― Millicent Ashby