When All Is Said And Done

There are years that ask questions and years that answer. 
( Zora Neale Hurston )

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
( Elinor Glyn )

Why do they always teach us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves?
It’s the hardest thing in the world to do what we want.
And it takes the greatest kind of courage.
I mean, what we really want. 
( Ayn Rand )

May you find the strength to face tomorrow in the love that surrounds you today.

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up. 
( Babe Ruth )

You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him. 
( Lou Holtz )

When someone tells me  “no,”  it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them.
( Karen E. Quinones Miller )

Not giving a shit doesn’t mean being indifferent.
It just means being comfortable with being different.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success.
( Henry David Thoreau )

You’re better than this.
Better than whatever it is you’re going to do now.
( Richelle Mead )

It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.
The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
( Wendell Berry )

The perfect mindset is to care about everyone and not care what anyone thinks about you.
What others think of you is none of your business.

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
( E. Joseph Cossman )

Greatness lies even in the smallest of moments, in the humblest of hearts, and we shall, each of us, be called to greatness.
Whether we shall rise to meet it or let it slip away is the challenge put before us all. 
( Libba Bray )

Sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can fall together. 
( Jessica Howell )

Not everything needs a reaction.
Just sit back, listen and observe.

We all pay for life with death.
So everything in between should be free.
( Bill Hicks )

The life you have left is a gift.
Cherish it.
Enjoy it now, to the fullest.
Do what matters, now.
( Leo Babauta )

What’s meant to be will always find a way.
( Trisha Yearwood )

Memories often sneak out from my eyes and roll as tears down my cheeks.

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are.
When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
( Paulo Coelho )

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.
( Maya Angelou )

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
( Jane Goodall )

You will never understand the damage of betrayal if you don’t know the value of loyalty.

It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.
( Vincent van Gogh )

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.
( Rumi )

You have power over your mind, not outside events.
Realise this, and you will find strength.
( Marcus Aurelius )

Don’t get mad at someone for being who they’ve always been.
Be mad at yourself for not coming to terms with it sooner.

It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
( F. Scott Fitzgerald )

To be loyal to myself is to allow myself to grow and change, and challenge who I am and what I think.
The only thing I am for sure is unsure, and this means I’m growing, and not stagnant or shrinking.
( Jarod Kintz )

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.
( Albert Einstein )

Some people will stop speaking to you if they owe you an apology.

Speak quietly to yourself and promise there will be better days.
Whisper gently to yourself and provide assurance that you really are extending your best effort.
Console your bruised and tender spirit with reminders of many other successes.
Offer comfort in practical and tangible ways.
As if you were encouraging your dearest friend.
Recognise that on certain days the greatest grace is that the day is over and you get to close your eyes.
Tomorrow comes more brightly.
( Mary Anne Radmacher )

Life is filled with unanswered questions, but it is the courage to seek those answers that continues to give meaning to life.
You can spend your life wallowing in despair, wondering why you were the one who was led towards the road strewn with pain, or you can be grateful that you are strong enough to survive it.
( J.D. Stroube )

Why must people kneel down to pray?
If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I’d do.
I’d go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I’d look up into the sky, up, up, up, into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness.
And then I’d just feel a prayer.
( L.M. Montgomery )

Truth sounds like hate to those who hate the truth.

Faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives.
( Terry Tempest Williams )

Any situation, circumstance or challenge is just a distraction and as you remain true to your goals and trust in God they will fall away.
( Michele Woolley )

Kindness is a mark of faith.
Whoever is not, has no faith.
( Muhammad )

Learn to talk to God during the day and ask Him to give you peace and to help you with your problems.
( Michele Woolley )

I wish for today and dream of yesterday.
If the gods should hold me in their favour, then I shall hope for tomorrow.
( Nadege Richards )

But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children’s lives.
( Rosamund Lupton )

The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance.
The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life.
You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
( Arnold Bennett )

The one thing I have absolute faith in is mankind’s capacity to make things worse.
No matter how bad it gets, we’re all happy to screw each other over.
( Mira Grant )

Love is a light that stops the darkness from entering the soul.
( Rose Winfold )

You must stop looking at the world through your head.
You must look through your heart, instead.
That way, you will know God.
( Elizabeth Gilbert )