You learned to laugh before you learned to talk.

unknown

Everyone is a main character to someone.
Amy Harmon; Making Faces

I must learn to love the fool in me - the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.


Theodore Isaac Rubin

You don’t pass or fail at being a person, dear.


Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can’t be fixed.
Rick Riordan

When was the last time anyone ever told you how important you are?

Maya Angelou

You have galaxies in your head, do not let people tell you you cannot shine.


explorinqmyself

I've learned that home isn't a place, it's a feeling.
Cecelia Ahern

Don’t promise me forever, don’t promise me the sun and sky. Don’t pretend to know you’ll never make me cry. Just hold me now and promise me you’ll try.


Jennifer Lopez

"Does it hurt?“ asked the Rabbit. "Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt."

-Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.

                          -J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

At any given point you have the power to say, this is not how the story is going to end.

                                                ~Unknown

I can do nothing for you but work on myself. You can do nothing for me but work on yourself.

                                        ~Ram Dass

The more you hide your feelings, the more they show. The more you deny your feelings, the more they grow.


                                           ~Unknown

I have a mind like ocean waves. Shifting always, too violent or too gentle, burning like salt water. Come too close and I worry that I will swallow you.

                                 ~ Zoë Lianne, Black and White

If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.

                                       ~Lemony Snicket

I’m always leaving, but I never have anywhere to go.

                                    ~Courtney Summers

You carry so much love in your heart. Give some to yourself.  
            
                                               ~unknown~