quotes that have inspired me lately.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Marie Curie

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.
John Lennon

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the willingness to act in spite of it.
Unknown

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love. Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free.
Leo Buscaglia

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t “try” to do things. You simply “must” do things.
Ray Bradbury

To hurt is as human as to breathe.
J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

You were like coming up for fresh air. It’s like I was drowning and you saved me.
Grey’s Anatomy

Almost all things in life deal with love, the lack of love, and the desire to be loved.
Paul Julian Banks

You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.
E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

Everyone feels that void. Everyone who has the balls to look inside themselves, anyway. It’s what life’s all about, a search.
Tiffanie DeBarto

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad, or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
Sylvia Plath


I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question.
Anonymous

You set yourself up for happiness or you set yourself up for sadness. Either way, it’s your doing.
Jill Davis