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  • #1
    C. JoyBell C.
    “We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #2
    C. JoyBell C.
    “You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #3
    Ken Robinson
    “If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.”
    Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

  • #4
    “Don't trust people who tell you other people's secrets.”
    Dan Howell

  • #5
    David Levithan
    “He has no idea how beautiful the ordinary becomes once it disappears.”
    David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

  • #6
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
    Rumi, The Essential Rumi

  • #7
    Jeff Wheeler
    “To fully master your mind, you must learn not to react to being observed by others. We naturally seek to please. To be acceptable. And in so doing, we give others—even our loved ones—power over our minds.”
    Jeff Wheeler, Storm Glass

  • #8
    Isaac Asimov
    “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
    Isaac Asimov, Foundation

  • #9
    Dan    Brown
    “Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we do not understand.”
    Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

  • #10
    Christopher Hitchens
    “The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”
    Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian

  • #11
    Adyashanti
    “Enlightenment is a destructive process. It
    has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the
    crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing
    through the facade of pretence. It's the
    complete eradication of everything we
    imagined to be true.”
    Adyashanti

  • #12
    Adyashanti
    “The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.”
    Adyashanti

  • #13
    Adyashanti
    “Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.”
    Adyashanti

  • #14
    Connor Franta
    “Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that's it. We're all people. We're all equal.”
    Connor Franta

  • #15
    George Carlin
    “I often warn people: "Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, 'There is no "I" in team.' What you should tell them is, 'Maybe not. But there is an "I" in independence, individuality and integrity.”
    George Carlin

  • #16
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • #17
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “The things you used to own, now they own you.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • #18
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • #19
    John Eldredge
    “You learn a great deal about the true nature of a person in the way they love, why they love, and, in what they love.”
    John Eldredge, Beautiful Outlaw: Experiencing the Playful, Disruptive, Extravagant Personality of Jesus

  • #20
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #21
    Brandon Sanderson
    “If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing.”
    Brandon Sanderson

  • #22
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Life before Death.
    Strength before Weakness.
    Journey before Destination.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

  • #23
    Brandon Sanderson
    “Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

  • #24
    Brandon Sanderson
    “To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.”
    Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

  • #25
    Brandon Sanderson
    “I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you’re not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book.”
    Brandon Sanderson

  • #26
    Anne Frank
    “I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
    Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

  • #27
    Earl Nightingale
    “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”
    Earl Nightingale

  • #28
    Woody Guthrie
    “All of my words, if not well put nor well taken, are well meant.”
    Woody Guthrie

  • #29
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
    Rumi

  • #30
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
    Rumi



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