“Your success as a family, our success as a society, depends not on what happens in the White House but on what happens inside Your House.” Barbara Bush
“Tell me and I’ll forget. Teach me and I’ll remember. Involve me and I’ll learn.” Benjamin Franklin
“Behaving with decency is smart. Life is easier when you’re good to people because they usually respond in kind. Decency builds friendships and fruitful business connections, and makes life less stressful. Where there’s decency, there’s strength.” Lea Berman (former White House social secretary to George W. Bush)
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” Mark Twain
“My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being “normal” is not necessarily a virtue? It sometimes rather denotes a lack of courage.” Aunt Frances
“to be happy is to be aware and a little less serious.” Zach Whitman
“Surround yourself with women who would mention your name in a room full of opportunities.” Unknown
“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.” Isak Dinesin
“There’s nothing more powerful than a humble person with a servant’s heart and warrior spirit who is driven my a bigger purpose.” Brian Kight
“We’re all in search of that someone who shows us that love can stay no matter how difficult things get.” farawaypoetry
“Hurt people don’t have to hurt people. There are plenty of trauma survivors who used the terrors that experienced in order to better engage in self-care and give back to others. They learned how not to treat others from the way they were treated. They had even ore empathy due to their traumas. Abusing others is a choice.” Shahida Arabi
“When you repeat a mistake, it is not a mistake anymore: It is a decision.” Paolo Coelho
“Destroy the idea that you gotta be good at artistic things to enjoy them, that every hobby has to become something you’re good at so you can monetize it. A capitalist lie. Sing offkey, draw poorly, write badly. Life is meant to be enjoyed, not monetized. You’re not a product.” @enlightened_goku
“Invest the best hours of your day on the biggest opportunity, not the biggest problem.” Farhamstreet.blog
“Your greatest contribution to the universe may not be something you do, but someone you raise.” @lovevolve.love
“The people I find most accepting, least controlling, and easiest to get close to, are the ones in my life who laugh the most. And also: let themselves and others grieve without limit.”
“A person becomes 10 times more attractive, not by their looks, but by their acts of kindness, respect, honesty, and the loyalty they show.” Unknown
“They don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” Attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others.
“Once you become aware of your need for growth, you change. You can recognize the people and relationships that allow that growth. And more importantly, the ones that don’t.” JmStorm
“Do not judge by appearances; a rich heart may be under a poor coat.” Scottish Proverb
“The Sun does not ask for anyone’s approval to shine. Your light doesn’t need approval to shine either. If it makes someone uncomfortable it’s their shadows, not yours. Keep shining. Be you.” @mindsetofgreatness
“Don’t worry about how many mistakes you’ll make or how slow you think your progress is, you’re still a million miles ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.” @bossbabe.inc
“You are a light. You are the light. Never let anyone-any person or any force- dampen, dim, or diminish your light.” John Lewis
“Don’t mistake modesty for humility. Modesty is a giggly lie. An act. A mask, A fake game. We have no time for it. To be humble is to be grounded in knowing who you are–to grow, to reach, to fully bloom as high and strong and grand as you were created to. It is not honorable for a tree to wilt and shrink and disappear. It’s not honorable for a woman to, either.” Glennon Doyle, Untamed
“it was when I stopped searching for home within others and lifted the foundations of home within myself I found there were no roots more intimate than those between a mind and body that have decided to be whole.” Rupi Kaur
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” Barack Obama
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” C.S.Lewis
“Humanity is what makes us influential, not titles, or number of followers, but what we do for others.” Sunny Goode
“If my circle doesn’t have people in it who challenge the way I think, my circle is incomplete.” Joshua Henry
“White privilege doesn’t mean you’ve never suffered. It means on top of all the struggles we experience as humans, the color of your skin has not added suffering to your life.” @goodhumansonly
“Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end. ” Robin Sharma
“You are personally responsible for becoming more ethical than the society you grew up in.” Cory Booker
“Shaming someone into action creates acting. Inspiring someone into action creates change.” Neil Strauss
“If you look at the people in your circle and don’t get inspired, then you don’t have a circle, you have a cage.” Nipsey Hussle
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” Desmond Tutu
“There comes a time when silence is betrayal.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela
“What if 2020 isn’t cancelled? What if 2020 is the year we’ve been waiting for? A year so uncomfortable, so painful, so scary, so raw–that it finally forces us to grow. A year that screams so loud, finally awakening us from our ignorant slumber. A year we finally accept the need for change. Declare change. Work for change. Become the change. A year we finally band together, instead of pushing each other further apart. 2020 isn’t cancelled, but rather the most important year of them all.” Leslie Dwight
“Dehumanizing people debases us all; humanity is beautifully and almost infinitely diverse. The bonds of our common humanity must overcome the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices. We need a government as good as its people, and we are better than this.” Former President Jimmy Carter
“If we are to remain the most vibrant and hopeful Nation on Earth we must allow our diversity to bring us together, not drive us apart. This must be the rallying cry of good and decent people…We must keep working to create a climate of understanding and tolerance, a climate that refuses to accept racism, bigotry, anti-Semitism, and hate of any kind, anytime, anywhere.” President George H.W. Bush May 1, 1992 Address to the Nation
“The reality is that sometimes your good intentions will not be seen as good intentions to everyone. We’re not giving out good intention awards, we are fighting for justice. You will get criticized along the way, but that does not mean you give up.” @femalecollective
“It is a privilege to educate yourself about racism instead of experiencing it.” @sirjohn
“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. ” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” Howard Thurman
“The biggest opportunity we miss is to be kind to ourselves.” Jennifer Garvey Burger in The Knowledge Project Podcast
“You can undo a lot of things. If you are not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice.” Jennifer Aniston
“I may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but I’m somebody’s double shot of whiskey.” Helena Bonham Carter
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light will.” Martin Luther King
“Joy is a form of resistance. There is no greater act of defiance than to thrive in life and be happy anyway, despite every reason not to be.” @acameald
“We won’t be distracted by comparison if we are captivated with purpose.” Bob Goff
“Stop worrying about other people understanding you. Get in touch with yourself instead. Focus on what makes you happy, what makes your soul feel at peace. You are your biggest commitment, so start loving your flaws, your awkwardness, you weirdness, your intensity, your vulnerability, your everything. Life becomes so much more fulfilling when you are simply yourself. The world keeps spinning whether people understand you or not so why not make this next trip around the sun about you.” Unknown
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” Edgar Degas
“The man that masters himself through self-discipline can never be mastered by others.” Napoleon Hill
“It’s the small habits. How you spend your mornings. How you talk to yourself. What you read. What you watch. Who you share your energy with. Who has access to you. That will change your life.” Michael Tonge
“I want you to know that what’s been good will always be good: the smell of coconut sunblock, a five year old showing you the spot where his front tooth used to be, a home cooked meal, when your love kisses that EXACT spot on your neck, a grandmother’s handwriting, a job well done, the kindness of strangers, the human spirit, an appaloosa horse, the ritual of your faith, laughing until you pee your pants a little, holiday dessert tables, first birthday parties, a perfect cup of coffee. What’s good will always be good, and one of the most awful, beautiful things about the hard seasons is that unless we experience hardship, we’ll never truly appreciate the good that was always good.” Rachel Hollis
“If you are uncomfortable-in deep pain, angry, yearning, confused-you don’t have a problem, you have a life. Being human is not hard because you’re doing it wrong, it’s hard because you’re doing it right. You will never change the fact that being human is hard, so you must change your idea that it was ever supposed to be easy.” Glennon Doyle
“Gut feelings are guardian angels. Listen to them.” @moonomens
“To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.” Dr. Seuss
“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.” Eleanor Roosevelt
“If we would only listen with the same passion that we feel about needing to be heard.” Harriet Lerner
“there is magic in true friendship. we can’t do it alone. we need to guide each other through our dark nights into the light of day.” Rachel Wolchin
“More than anything else, attention is an act of connection.” Julia Cameron in “The Artist’s Way”
“I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.” Maya Angelou
“Do small things with great love.” Mother Theresa
“Our biggest problem is that we think we shouldn’t have them.” Tony Robbins
“Nothing compares to trying to understand who your child is and then working to help them become who they were meant to be–not who you want them to be, but who they want to be.” Maria Shriver
“How lucky you are to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. ” Winnie the Pooh
“How successful you are is really a function of how you deal with failure. If you deal with failure well and you persist, you have a high probability of being successful.” Bill Ackman
“True belonging is the spiritual practice of believing in and belonging to yourself so deeply that you can share your most authentic self with the world and find sacredness in both being a part of something and standing alone in the wilderness. True belonging doesn’t require you to change who you are; it requires you to be who you are.” Dr. Brene Brown
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“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make your soul blossom. ” Marcel Proust
“I choose to think of every tough result or tough day emotionally as another point where somebody else is going to be quitting and I get to persevere.” Ryan Muthiora
“Motherhood. The art of impacting your kids by your presence and hoping it lasts in your absence.” Unknown
“Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now. And that’s a revelation for some people; to realize that your life is only ever now.” Eckhart Tolle
“I hope you find someone who never makes you question your own self-worth. I hope you find someone who chases your happiness as much as their own. I hope you find someone whom you can laugh with and sit in silence with and share your deepest secrets with. I hope you find someone who treats you as their equal, who learns and grows with you and beside you. I hope you find someone who reminds you that you deserve the love you give.” Courtney Peppernell
“Mental distancing means staying away from people infected with anger, rudeness, and poor thinking.” Farnam Street
“do not lose hope. please believe that there are thousands of beautiful things waiting for you. sunshine comes to all who feel the rain.” R.M.Drake
“One of the flaws of being caring is the searing desire to solve everything. I’m eternally trying to discern between “helping people” and “fixing people”, because sometimes the parts of people I’m fixated on aren’t broken. They’ve just been differently made.” SaveInigo
“If you are more fortunate than others, build a longer table than a taller fence.” Unknown
“In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.” Buddha
“It is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed, the deeper the burn.” Robert Southey
“Comparison is the thief of joy.” Theodore Roosevelt
“Accept that you are not perfect, but you are enough. And then start working on everything that destroys you. Your insecurities, your ego, your dark thoughts. You will see in the end you’re going to make peace with yourself. And that’s the greatest thing in the world.” Finja Bradenburg
“Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations. The best is yet to come.” Zig Ziglar
“You are the books you read, the films you watch, the music you listen to, the people you meet, the dreams you have, the conversations you engage in. You are what you take from these. You are the sound of the ocean, the breath of fresh air, the brightest light and the darkest corner. You are a collective of every experience you have had in your life. So drown yourself in a sea of knowledge and existence. Let the world run through your veins and let the colours fill your mind.” Jac Vanek
“Happiness does not stop us from change; it creates the belief that change is possible.” Shawn Achor
“Time is a wheel, vast and indifferent, and when time rolls on and men forget, we face the risk of circling back. We slouch yawning to a new horizon and find ourselves gazing at old hatreds seeded and watered by forgetfulness and flowering into new wars.” The Huntress by Kate Quinn
“The first time a woman is hit, she is a victim and the second time, she is a volunteer” The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker
“Building a generation is like building a wall–one good well-made brick at a time, one good well-made child at a time. Enough good bricks, you have a good wall. Enough good children, you have a generation that won’t start a world-enveloping war.” The Huntress by Kate Quinn
“Children learn most from modeling, and as a mother accepts blows, so likely will her daughter. As a father delivers the blows, so likely will his son.” The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker
“Everything is super important. Until you are sick. Then you realize there was only one thing that was important. Your health. But we borrow from the bank of our health, taking loans on stress and sleepless nights to pay for something that really doesn’t matter.” Unknown
“Sometimes nervous fathers-to-be ask me for advice, and I try to be careful, because every kid is different, and so is every dad. But one thing that feels universal…is the value in trying to be present, and treating each moment as an opportunity for connection. Whether you are on vacation in an RV or changing a diaper in a public restroom, celebrating a soccer goal or trying to calm them down when they are crying or throwing up or hungry or angry or all of the above…if you look at the situation simply as the apparatus within which you get to form a bond with your kid…you’ve won. Because you’ve created space for your own special brand of magic to kick in. No father is perfect–we’re all human and we all get overwhelmed at times- but if connection is your goal…you can’t really screw up. Even when you screw up. And you’ll probably find yourself happier than you ever have before.” James Van Der Beek (as vanderjames on Instagram)
“To hate is an easy lazy thing but to love takes strength everyone has but not all are willing to practice.” Rupi Kaur
“Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break and all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go love intentionally, extravangantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits for the light that is you.” L.R. Knost
“There are people less qualified than you doing the things you want to do, simply because they believe in themselves. Period.” Denzel Washington
“Today I asked my body what she needed, which is a big deal considering my journey of not really asking that much. I thought she might need more water. Or protein. Or greens. Or yoga. Or supplements. Or movement. But as I stood in the shower reflecting on her stretch marks, her roundness where I would like flatness, her softness where I would like firmness. All those conditioned wishes that form a bundle of Never-Quite-Right-Ness. She whispered very gently: Could you just love me like this?” Hollie Holden
“Today you could be standing next to someone who is trying their best not to fall apart so whatever you do today, do it with kindness in your heart.” @curt.autry
“The only person that you need to try & be better than is who you were yesterday.” Rachel Hollis
“We must be the change we wish to see in the world” Ghandi