Quotes on “life-lessons”

There's no need to wait for the bad things and bullshit to be over. Change now. Love now. Live now. Don't wait for people to give you permission to live, because they won't.

Not forever does the bulbul singIn balmy shades of bowers,Not forever lasts the springNor ever blossom the flowers.Not forever reigneth joy,Sets the sun on days of bliss,Friendships not forever last,They know not life, who know not this.

When you're following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly slam at first.

In breaking away from the familiar and the expected, you'll be forced and privileged to face greater challenges, learn harder lessons, and really get to know yourself.

Sometimes the only way to ever find yourself is to get completely lost.

Which is the true nightmare, the horrific dream that you have in your sleep or the dissatisfied reality that awaits you when you awake?

How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others.

You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.

Things are what they are, and whatever will be, will be.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Things don't always work out the way we hope. You just have to pick yourself up and find a new direction to go in.

You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.

You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.

We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.

It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams.

Friends are the family you choose.

[H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.

Just like there's always time for pain, there's always time for healing.