Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
Stephen KingThe successful men I admired all built their bodies.
Dwayne JohnsonIf I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.
Kurt CobainWatch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.
Joyce MeyerI’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.
David GogginsThere is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.
Eckhart TolleMen have become the tools of their tools.
Henry David ThoreauWe are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard ShawI always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don’t think that anymore.
Dolores HuertaI don’t have any regrets. I made all my own decisions.
George BestDo the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
Mark TwainI do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.
Robert KiyosakiWe are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.
Henry David ThoreauLittle things affect little minds.
Benjamin DisraeliFear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
Jean-Paul SartreI think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.
Marilyn MonroeI always entertain the notion that I’m wrong, or that I’ll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing.
Anthony BourdainI’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
Taylor SwiftWe are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
Paul AusterGod didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.
Mr. TI am in my own head most of the time.
Vivienne WestwoodI made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.
Joel OsteenI made bad decisions. I’m not denying that I made bad decisions.
Abby Lee MillerBoredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.
Eckhart TolleMy ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
Taylor SwiftThere’s a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
PlatoLife opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.
Jim CarreyMaybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.
Jim CarreyAnger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI don’t think a lot of people know personally who I am.
Tom BradyWe must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
Henry David ThoreauWhen men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
Joseph AddisonWe run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.
Blaise PascalIf you’re embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn’t include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.
Ray BradburyTesting oneself is best when done alone.
Jimmy CarterI hated the Naked Chef. Fine, yes, he did good things for school food or whatever, but, you know, I don’t want my chefs to be cute and adorable.
Anthony BourdainI have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
Hermann HesseAt the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
Lao TzuNo one is laughable who laughs at himself.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaBreathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.
Thich Nhat HanhYou’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‚Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.‘ See the positive in negative events.
Joel OsteenThe first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.
Sunil ChhetriI liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.
Dwayne JohnsonMost people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.
Joel OsteenSelf-interest is the enemy of all true affection.
Franklin D. RooseveltI walk tall; I got a tall attitude.
Dolly PartonI live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert EinsteinSomeone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.
Bruno MarsI have much more support than most women around this world, and I have the financial means to have a home and help with care and food.
Angelina JolieThrough my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘
Adam SandlerIf it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.
Henry KissingerThose of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.
Maya AngelouI have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.
Harry S. TrumanSomebody’s boring me. I think it’s me.
Dylan ThomasThe person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
Brian TracyMy moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.
Kendrick LamarWithin the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
Ronald ReaganMy parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.
Dwayne JohnsonFreedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
Theodore RooseveltWhy are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
Virginia Woolf