Favorite Quotes

“Do or do not do. There is no try” - Yoda 

“Those who are skilled in combat do not become angered,those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus the wise win before the fight, while the ignorant fight to win.” by O Sensei Ueshiba

“You know, sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it.” - Benjamin Mee 

“Listen, when I was a young girl, I used to spend hours looking for ladybugs. Finally, I’d give up and fall asleep in the grass. When I woke up, they were crawling all over me.” from Under the Tuscan Sun

“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, and the present worse than it is.” 

“I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul” - Henley

“It’s being here now that’s important.There’s no past and there’s no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can’t relieve it; and we can hope for the future, but we don’t know if there is one.” - George Harrison

“It’s like you feel homesick for a place that doesn’t even exist.” -Garden State

“Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit it openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.”- Sigmund Freud

“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”— Fernando Pessoa

“In your life, you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you. And then there are some you wish you never had to think about again. But you do.”— C.S. Lewis

“Death is extraordinarily like life when we know how to live. You cannot live without dying. You cannot live if you do not die psychologically every minute. This is not an intellectual paradox. To live completely, wholly, everyday as if it were a new loveliness, there must be a dying to everything of yesterday, otherwise you live mechanically, and a mechanical mind can never know what love is or what freedom is.” - J. Krishnamurti

“There are only two kinds of people in this world. Good people who do good deeds. And bad people who do bad. That’s the only difference in human beings. There’s no other difference.” - My Name Is Khan

“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering
is worse than the suffering itself.” — Paulo Coelho