08. “Freedom is a state of mind.”
09. “There is nothing you can have forever, but there are many things you’ll miss experiencing if you’re too busy trying to keep them rather than love them while you have them.”
10. “There are so many kinds of love worth pursuing, other than romantic love. There are so many experiences to have, other than just happiness. Anything other than ideal is not failure. It’s life. It’s what we’re made for and meant for.”
11. “I am a person of value. I deserve happiness. I deserve to be kind to myself. I deserve love.”
12. “I will get over what I am struggling with in the very same way I got over the other things I thought I never could. That’s the most comforting thought, in my opinion: comparing what you’re going through to what you’ve been through, and knowing you have what it takes to get through it.”
13. “You don’t remember years, you remember moments.”
14. “I’m not supposed to be anything other than what I am.”
15. “Nothing is permanent, not even the worst feelings.”
16. “I can change my experience just by deciding to see things differently. I may not be in control of what happens around and toward me, but I am always in control of how I see it, how I respond, and how I react. At the end of the day, that is all I am responsible for.”
17. “Nobody cries at a funeral because the world will be missing out on another pretty face. They cry because the world is missing another heart, another soul, another person. Don’t wait until it’s too late to focus on what will actually matter: creating something that lasts far beyond your body.”
18. “People do not love you based on a flowchart on which they compare you to other people. People who are the prettiest and thinnest and best-off financially are not the most loved! They do not
live the best lives! I have to remind myself that every time I start worrying more about what I look like than what I am.”
19. “The moment is all that exists. The cliché that tells you to live in it is overdone, but there’s no other option, really. It’s whether or not you’re paying attention that’s the problem.”
20. “The way to get through anything is to embrace the fact that whatever comes, comes with reason, whatever stays, stays with reason, whatever hurts, hurts with reason. Ignoring or fighting the effect will not fix the cause.”
21. “What you focus on expands.”
22. “This, too, shall pass.”
23. “I’ve always been compelled to act when I was meant to. I never had to think too hard about the things that were meant to be. I only had to be open to them.”
24. “What I went through made me who I am; what I’m going through will make me what I will be. What I choose to put my energy toward now will create that person. I decide. My circumstances don’t.”
25. “Never forget that you are not in the world; the world is in you.
When anything happens to you, take the experience inward.
Creation is set up to bring you constant hints and clues about your role as co-creator. Your soul is metabolizing experience as surely as your body is metabolizing food. (This is a quote from Deepak Chopra.)”
26. “There is always a way…even when it least feels like it. There is always a way. There are different jobs, new ideas, apartments opening up across the country, flights leaving in the next hour to the places I’ve always wanted to go. There is a way to find the money, get the gig, find the love…there is always a way! I am never stuck, I am only in the mindset that I am.”
27. “There is no grand moment in life. You don’t wake up and say,
‘Aha! I’ve made it!’ Happiness is all in details, the joy is all in the journey. Always has been, always will be.”
28. “The purpose of being here is growth. Growth means being able to experience and see more because you are aware of it. The purpose of being here, then, is expanding awareness.”
29. “The worst things to happen to me were the things that had to teach me what nothing else could, to prepare me for things so wonderful, I couldn’t imagine them, let alone know I had to get ready for them.”
30. “You haven’t failed until you’ve stopped trying.”
31. “I do not have to adopt other people’s problems as my own to help them.”
32. “You do not have to be loved by everybody to be worthy of love.”
33. “The present is the only time. If you don’t start living in it, you don't really live at all.”
34. “You teach people how to treat you. You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”
35. “My only regret, in my entire life, is just that I didn’t enjoy it more.”
36. “The things I’m meant to have will simply come to me. All I am responsible for is making sure I’m ready.”
37. “Don’t take anything too seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.”
38. “I cannot change those around me. Real change happens one by one, each person doing the only thing they can: seeing where they can stand to improve as opposed to pointing fingers at the injustices they see in others.”
39. “Wisdom is knowing that you don’t and will never really know anything. We used to believe the Earth was flat. A discovery changed that. You don’t know that we won’t discover we’re all robots in some matrix simulation, or I don’t know…the point is, wisdom is just being, not making sense of.”
40. “I once bought a train ticket for myself, and was on a trip that I completely funded, and realized that I can support myself, and I
don’t have to answer or please anybody else. I work hard so I can live the way I want.”
41. “I am infinite. People always say: What would you do if you could live forever? Well, I’m here to say: If you believe your soul is eternal, you can…what are you doing with it now?”
42. “Even if you abandon faith, hope, and love, they don’t leave you.”