"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."

-Albert Einstein

( SIDE NOTE: Re-watched "The Secret" on Netflix and I highly recommend that you drop everything that you're doing right now and do the same. )

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

 

E.E. Cummings

"We all want things to stay the same, David…settle for living in misery, because we’re afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins. Then I looked around in this place, at the chaos it’s endured, the way it’s been adapted, burned, pillaged…then found a way to build itself back up again, and I was reassured. Ruin is a gift, ruin is the road to transformation."

 

"If you’re brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue, and if you accept everyone you meet as a teacher…and if you are prepared, most of all, to forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you."

 

– Liz Gilbert, Eat Pray Love

"Don’t wish it was easier, wish you were better.
Don’t wish for less problems, wish for more skills.
Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom.
The major value in life is not what you get.
The major value in life is what you become.
Success is not to be pursued;
it is to be attracted by the person you become."

-Jim Rohn

Let everything happen to you.
Beauty and terror.
Just keep going.
No feeling is final.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I don’t want to live, I want to love first and live incidentally.
— Zelda Fitzgerald

Everything you want is coming. Relax and let the universe pick up the timing and the way. You just need to trust that what you want is coming, and watch how fast it comes.
— Abraham Hicks

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
— James Thurber

I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.
— Anais Nin

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.” ~Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

"The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment."

-Pema Chodron

God will get you through anything

Sometimes you just have to get out of your own way

"you must give up what you could

lose in order to gain what you

could not lose."

-  my fortune cookie, speaking to me loud and clear today