Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. Winston Churchill "Open your eyes look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?" -Bob Marley "You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down." -Charles Chaplin "For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." -Søren Kierkegaard "You can’t put life on hold, it doesn’t wait for you." -Charlie St. Cloud (2010)
"There is no Them. There are only facets of Us." John Green "Choose your love. Love your choice." -Thomas S. Monson
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave – Mary Tyler Moore Being strong means rejoicing in who you are, complete with imperfections − Margaret Woodhouse
"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart." -Eleanor Roosevelt If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If "The human race has only one really effective you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same weapon and that is laughter." -Mark Twain place − Nora Roberts "Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks." -Holly Black "It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required." -Winston S. Churchill
An unfulfilled life makes a hard man. - Bruce Springsteen, I Wanna Marry You
"There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor." -Charles Dickens
"I live to succeed, not to please you or anyone else." -Marilyn Monroe
"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts." -Albert Einstein
"It doesn’t matter who you are. What matters is your plan." -The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
"No friendship is an accident." -O. Henry
I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed − Michael Jordan. The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary − May V. Smith Where hope grows, miracles blossom − Elna Rae A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing − George Bernard Shaw
"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle." Nobody can make you feel inferior without your "The opportunities of most people are determined by -Lewis Carroll consent − Eleanor Roosevelt forces they do not even see." -Che: Part One (2008) “Life is for the living; death for the dead. Let life be It took me a long time not to judge myself through "The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The like music and death a note unsaid.” - Langston someone else's eyes − Sally Field desire to reach hearts is wise." -Maya Angelou Hughes I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the sky didn't fall down − Allen H. Neuharth doing new things, because we're curious and the fight in the dog −Archie Griffen. curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. – Walt Hope never abandons you, you abandon it − George Nothing lasts forever. Not even your troubles Disney Weinberg − Arnold H Glasgow "Live for yourself and you will live in vain; live for Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of There are only two ways to live your life. One is as others, and you will live again." -Bob Marley you − Ralph Waldo Emerson though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though "Wake up and live." -Bob Marley everything is a miracle − Albert Einstein Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust − Jesse Owens
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle “Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness loved.” – Les Miserables sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is “Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole light from within − Elisabeth Kübler-Ross life.” – Les Miserables Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by "To love another person is to see the face of God." – those who dared believe that something inside of Les Miserables them was superior to circumstance − Bruce Barton
other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.” ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables "People are afraid of me because I am different." Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it − John Maxwell
“Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.” – Les Miserables
"I have a crush on your mind, I fell for your personality, and your looks are just a big bonus." The Notebook (2004)
Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway − Mary Kay Ash
“For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.” – Les Miserables
"We were just there together. And that was enough." -The Perks of Being Wallflower (2012)
“The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.” – Les Miserables
"We accept the love we think we deserve." -The Perks of Being Wallflower (2012)
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” – Les Miserables
"Do you know how it feels to let go of someone you really love for a long time, just for them to be happy?" -Charlie St. Cloud (2010)
“Even though some of you are pretty thin, you all have fat hearts, and that’s what counts.” - Fat Amy (Pitch Perfect, 2012) “There is nothing like a dream to create the future.” – Les Miserables My friends, don't ask me what your sacrifice was for! Empty chairs at empty tables, where my friends shall sing no more. – Marius, Les Miserables "Tomorrow we'll discover what our God in Heaven has in store." – Les Miserables "Not being heard is no reason for silence." – Les Miserables Here they talked of revolution, here it was they lit the flame. Here they sang about tomorrow, and tomorrow never came. – Marius, Les Miserables
“Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.” – Victor Hugo, Les Miserables “have no fear of robbers or murderers. they are external dangers, petty dangers. we should fear ourselves. prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murderers. the great dangers are within us. why worry about what threatens our heads or our purses? let us think instead of what threatens our souls.” – Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
“Whither will suffering lead me? To nothingness, but I shall have suffered. Whither will enjoyment lead me? To nothingness, but I shall have enjoyed “If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it myself. My choice is made.” – Les Miserables Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.” – Les Miserables “The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. “A compliment is something like a kiss through a Few people dare now to say that two beings have veil.” – Les Miserables fallen in love because they have looked at each
"Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself." -Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) "I hate the way I don't hate you. Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all." -10 Things I Hate About You (1999) "Destiny is something we've invented because we can't stand the fact that everything happens is accidental." -Sleepless in Seattle (1993) "You know the place between sleep & awake, the place where you still remember dreaming? Thats where I'll always love you." -PeterPan (2003) “If a problem can be solved, there is no use worrying about it..” -Seven Years in Tibet (1997) “People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.” –Charles Bukowski
“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.” – Veronica Roth, Divergent