Inspirational Quotes

What if the longer we don’t deal with the memories we are haunted by, the more these memories, like long-ignored cavities, become not only painfully sensitive, but require root canal?

~ Lauren Handel Zander

Our foibles, issues, lies, and idiosyncrasies are not the problem, I swear. Our hiding them is. It’s what leaves us not trusting each other and not developing ourselves to become trustworthy.

~ Lauren Handel Zander

Telling the whole truth and nothing but is the ultimate taking care of yourself. I can’t tell you how many clients of mine, once they clean up their lie list and resolve the big ones, cure themselves of their own depression.

~ Lauren Handel Zander

Look. The world is full of liars, and it’s time someone admitted it, shed a light on it, and lightened up about it.

~ Lauren Handel Zander

Our mind has a mind of its own.

~ Lauren Handel Zander

Ever notice how we are constantly talking to ourselves in our heads. We not only profess to know what others are thinking, but also what their responses will be––and even what they really meant by what they said. Apparently, we are all mind readers, without much proven psychic ability.

~ Lauren Handel Zander

Being able to tell the truth about our own lack of personal integrity has integrity to it. The key to being able to deal with and lighten up about our own humanity is to get wholly honest about our dishonesty.

~ Lauren Handel Zander

Ever notice how on a bad day you never deserve a salad? I mean how long do you think your bad mood would really last if you only fed your brat celery? How many bad days would your brat tolerate if it no longer got rewarded a drink, a cigarette, or an entire Netflix series on the couch for it.

~ Lauren Handel Zander

Did you ever notice that most of us relate to our lives like we have no control or say over them? Especially in areas where we’re not proud. We speak about ourselves like we’re reporting on the weather, making sweeping generalizations...And boy do we ever believe our own ‘forecasts.

~ Lauren Handel Zander

It is vital to avoid mediocrity - living a life of deadness in someone else's threadbare world.

~ Miriam A. Walker

You cannot pour from an empty bottle so take care of yourself first.

~ Keysha Jade

So although there is no phoenix here, there is, nonetheless, a fierce, stubborn, wildly insightful, arrogantly honest, crazily committed, and caring human, who will take the heat, the brunt of whatever silver spoon joke you may have, so I can help you have everything you want in your life. And I mean everything.

~ Lauren Handel Zander

Inside each of us is our ideal life: our true north.

~ Lauren Handel Zander

If we’re not the one driving our dreams forward, who is? If we don’t figure out how to change jobs, eat healthily, date, fall and stay in love, who will come save us? No one. But, then again, no one should, right? The are, after all, our dreams.

~ Lauren Handel Zander

We live in a society in which unnecessary conformities are the very essence of necessity

~ Christine Iliadis

Be kind to your future self, and your future will be kind to you.

~ Liliana Kohann

It is better to be small in flesh but large in spirit.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is the confession, not the Priest, that gives us absolution

~ Christine Iliadis

It is not the one that falls first that matters, but the one that gets up to help the other

~ Christine Iliadis

Men treat you, the way you make them treat you.

~ Kate Mcafee

Anger is fleeting, whereas hostility is enduring.

~ Deborah Sandella

While it is easy to blame the hand of the abuser, when that hand no longer is raised against you, why do you continue to feel the burn of its touch?

~ Deborah Brodie

It is in the deconstruction of ourselves that we begin to build our lives.

~ Delora Argiro O'brien

DON'T BE SO PREPARED FOR THE BATTLE,TO THE POINT YOU FIND YOURSELF UNPREPARED FOR THE VICTORY!WHEN YOU TRULY BELIEVE IN YOURSELF, YOU PREPARE FOR IT ALL!

~ Qwana Reynolds-Frasier

PEOPLE DIE THEIR ENERGY DON'T!

~ Qwana Reynolds-Frasier

WHEN YOU FOLLOW THE WAYS OF YOUR ANCESTORS YOU WILL NEVER BE LOST.LET YOUR ANCESTORS BE YOUR GUIDING LIGHT.

~ Qwana Reynolds-Frasier

BELINDA:Your children are a pain in the neck...MASSIMO: They are mine when they misbehave—BELINDA: Which is always.MASSIMO: And yours when they behave like angels.BELINDA: I’ll be old by the time that happens.

~ Billy London

Always keep dreaming. Follow those visions, listen to those whispers and pursue those dreams that keep trying to nudge you in the right direction. It is not impossible to achieve them.

~ Sandy Hubacka Treft

Having an emotional connection with what we wear is at once transformative and talismanic. Why else would Glenda the Good Witch have given Dorothy a pair of ruby slippers? Clicking those heels did more than get Miss Garland back to Kansas, they manifested magic – that sweet spot where memories are made.

~ Annmarie O'connor

Life is essentially an endless series of problems. The solution to one problem is merely the creation of another.

~ Mark Manson

It’s true that no one ever said life would be easy, but it’s also true that no ever said you had to do it alone.

~ Jellis Vaes

Do what you love and the rest will come.

~ Romi Grossberg

I need to stop thinking about how people see me and figure out who I am. Faking it isn't working. We should focus on being happy....Just happy.

~ Bijou Hunter

If you love her, that's all that matters.

~ Bijou Hunter

And like anyone who is in valiant pursuit of dreams, the ups and downs come and go, but the dream lives in the heart forever.

~ Chris Michaels

If you have one clean hand and one dirty, you do not get two clean hands by rubbing them together.

~ The Mexican Horse Thief

Willpower is misunderstood. The very word suggests that wanting something badly enough bequeaths that necessary strength to achieve or overcome something. If that were the case, I'd be Michael Fassbender's missus by now.

~ Annmarie O'connor

Excuses – the great enabler. Without them, we'd have no reason to shop when we shouldn't and every reason to feel guilty for doing so. Nothing like the aul 'dog ate my knickers' chestnut to manifest a new handbag at will (in which to deposit much-needed new knickers, of course).

~ Annmarie O'connor

I was sweating like Christy Moore at a Feis Ceol, so badly, in fact, I looked like I was sporting a finger moustache as I attempted to rescue suicidal perspiration drops from my upper lip. Classy.

~ Annmarie O'connor

If you keep chasing shooting stars, you'll never feel the warmth of the sun.

~ Ann Marie Frohoff