The beginning is always today.
It’s never too late to be what you might have been.
~George Eliot
We spend our whole lives worrying about the future, planning for the future, trying to predict the future, as if figuring it out will cushion the blow. But the future is always changing. The future is the home of our deepest fears and wildest hopes. But one thing is certain when it finally reveals itself. The future is never the way we imagined it.
~Meredith (voice-over), Grey's Anatomy
Too often we are scared, scared of what we might not be able to do, scared of what people might think if we tried. We let fears stand in the way of our hopes. We say no when we want to say yes. We sit quietly when we want to scream. And we shout with the other when we should keep our mouths shut. Why? After all, we do only go around once. There's really no time to be afraid.
You never know the biggest day of your life is the biggest day. Not until it's happening. You don't recognize the biggest day of your life, not until you're right in the middle of it. The day you commit to something or someone. The day you get your heart broken. The day you meet your soul mate. The day you realize there's not enough time, because you wanna live forever. Those are the biggest days. The perfect days. You know?
~Izzy (voice-over), Grey's Anatomy
When you walk to the edge of all the light you have and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown, you must believe that one of two things will happen: There will be something solid for you to stand upon, or, you will be taught how to fly.
~Patrick Overton
You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one.
~Henry D. Thoreau
Hugging has no unpleasant side effects and is all natural. There are no batteries to replace, it's inflation-proof and non-fattening with no monthly payments. It's non-taxable, non-polluting, and is, of course, fully refundable.
Life isn’t about finding a way around the puddles… it’s about jumping in them without the fear of getting dirty.
My life was a poem I would have writ but I could not both live and utter it.
~Henry David Thoreau
Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
~ George Herman ("Babe") Ruth
The past can hurt. You can either run from it or learn from it.
~ Rafiki, The Lion King
