“Pain is a part of life. Sometimes it’s a big part, and sometimes it isn’t, but either way, it’s a part of the big puzzle, the deep music, the great game. Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you’re alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another.” - Jim Butcher

““You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.”” - Zig Ziglar

"We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our control. When we learn what it is our soul needs to learn, the path presents itself. Sometimes we see the way out but wander further and deeper despite ourselves; the fear, the anger or the sadness preventing us returning. Sometimes we prefer to be lost and wandering, sometimes it's easier. Sometimes we find our own way out. But regardless, always, we are found." — Cecelia Ahern (Thanks for the Memories)

   An amazing quote from an amazing book

“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain. And most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.” - Dale Carnegie

“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.” - Marcel Pagnol

“There are two kinds of secrets. The ones we keep from others and the ones we keep from ourselves.” - Frank Warren

“I don’t find time to write. I make time to write. Big difference.” -Elizabeth Moon

"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful. They are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul." -Luther Burbank

"Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be." - Joy Page

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. — Pablo Picasso

“When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.” - Clifton Fadiman

Crayons

"We're all like crayons; we come with different names, sizes, colors, sharpness, but the thing we share together is that we color this world and together we color this world creatively beautiful."

- Andrew De Leon

Creative reading (!)

"There is creative reading as well as creative writing."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Change is good :)

"We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person."

- William Somerset Maugham

The power of writing

"If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped change. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better."

- J.K. Rowling

Favorite books

“We don’t need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They’re always with us. We just sort of accumulate them.”

-  Lloyd Alexander 

Some nice quotes (3)

“If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z, where X is work, Y is play, Z is keep your mouth shut.”
-Albert Einstein


“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.”
-Beverly Sills


“Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.”
-Charles Luckman


“Men are born to succeed, not to fail.”
-Henry David Thoreau


“The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary.”
-Vidal Sassoon

Some nice quotes (2)

"Your decision to walk creates the path ahead" ~Paulo Coelho


"Write your own fairytale" ~Hannah Smith


"If it is not a happy ending, it is perhaps a happy beginning" ~Julia Hoban 

"We can change our lives. We can do, have, & be exactly what we wish" ~Tony Robbins 

"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up" ~Vince Lombardi

Strength

"Stay strong"

That is a phrase said to us at hard times...

but what does that mean?

Despite the fact that it is impossible to obtain one definition for the word "strong",

but it just means:

determined. powerful.

"Stay strong" means:

Don't freak out in spite of the hard time you're going through.

It takes a patient person to have strength.

Quotes

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do. 

-Eleanor Roosevelt

Above all challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish.

-Cecile Springer 

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
-Plato 

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. 
-Victor Hugo 

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger. 
-Friedrich Nietzsche

What this power is, I cannot say.
All I know is that it exists
and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind
in which you know exactly what you want
and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.
-Alexander Graham Bell

I could do nothing without problems,
they toughen my mind.
In fact I tell my assistants
not to bring me their successes for they weaken me;
but rather to bring me their problems,
for they strengthen me.
-Charles F Kettering

Some nice quotes

'Don’t hurry. Don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.' ~Walter Hagen

'Love your enemy. But don’t forget he is not your friend.' ~Paulo Coelho

'Be your own best friend. Never ever, put yourself down.' ~Paulo Coelho

'Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.' ~Albert Einstein

'If you would create something, you must be something.' ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

'It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."' ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

'The best way out is always through.' ~Robert Frost