"It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about."

"We’re all susceptible to it, the dread and anxiety of not knowing what’s coming. It’s pointless in the end, because all the worrying and the making of plans for things that could or could not happen, it only makes things worse. So walk your dog or take a nap. Just whatever you do, stop worrying. Because the only cure for paranoia is to be here, just as you are."

Meredith Grey, Grey’s Anatomy

"If it doesn’t happen magically over night, you might want to try doing it manually, every day."

"Never stand begging for what you have the power to earn."

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.”

— Karen Ravn

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish it’s source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”

— Anais Nin

“An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… The truly wise person is colorblind.”

— Albert Schweitzer

“In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.”

— George Clemenceau

I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.

— Robert Lynd

“ …if you’ve been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. you feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again.

C.S. Lewis