Quotes

“We’re all just walking each other home.” – Ram Dass

“Never ever question the good in your life.” – Jenn Im

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs

“Reality is just a crutch for people who can’t handle drugs” – Robin Williams

“My life is a road, man. I need to keep moving.” – Matthew McConaughey

“The worst kind of person is someone who makes someone feel bad, dumb, or stupid for like, being excited about something. Like, I don’t think you should ever have to apologise for your excitement … just because something’s cliche doesn’t mean it’s not something that’s awesome.” – Taylor Swift

“The lesson I cherish the most is how important it is to love what you do. If you love what you do and it’s making you happy, all the hard work and perserverance will pay off.” – Kobe Bryant

“I am 56 now. And yesterday, yesterday, I was 20. You know what I mean? And today I am 56. Time flies. Time flies. And, I think one day, I think you will regret … if you don’t reach what you can reach.” – Jose Mourinho

“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.” – Alan Watts

“But little by little, as you left their voice behind, the stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do, determined to save the only life that you could save.” – Mary Oliver

“And let me tell you this … if you’ve made it through addiction or mental illness, you have something, cuz a lot of people don’t. If you are still kicking today, battling those demons, you have something cuz a lot of people didn’t wake up today cuz they couldn’t make it. They couldn’t cut it, and you fucking did.” – Mike Majlak

“I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.” – LeBron James

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.” – Carl Sagan

“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” – Maya Angelou

“Go right through it. Like, right through it. Feel it, be in it, don’t avoid it, go completely in it, feel everything, and then go right through it and get out the other end.” – Angelina Jolie

“Go listen to all my music, it’s the codes of self esteem. It’s the codes of who you are. If you’re a Kanye West fan, you’re not a fan of me– you’re a fan of yourself. You will believe in yourself. I’m just the espresso. I’m just the shot in the morning to get you going, to make you believe that you can overcome that situation that you’re dealing with all the time.” – Kanye West

“Two things define you: your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Why can’t I be MVP of the league? Why can’t I be the best player in the league?” – Derrick Rose

“I missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan

“The path to self-discovery is not a straight line. It’s a zigzag. We move in and out of awareness: one step forward, three steps to the left, a baby step back, another leap forward. A lightbulb moment might shine brightly one day, but then flicker the next. It takes work to hold tightly to a certain consciousness, to live in its wisdom. Every day, I have to intentionally maintain an awareness of my value.” – Alicia Keys

“The greatest mind cannot speak to a bleeding heart.” – Simon Jacobson

“I consider myself a genius who happens to play chess.” – Bobby Fischer

“You’re gonna hear this from me one fucking time. I was born a nice kid. Somewhere along the line, I lost my fucking way. Somewhere along the line, when you suffer a traumatic experience, or when you’re a young man, you stay stuck for a few years, or a young woman, you stay stuck. You know, when you suffer a dad or a mom or a grandmother you were tight with, you get stalled for a couple years. I’m not making excuses, these are all proven things, you gotta read this shit. You just don’t grow, until the reality comes to you of what happened to you, you’re still in shock, when your mom dies or your father dies, and somewhere along the line I went off the rail. And I’m sorry for that.” – Joey Diaz

“I got to number one in the world and I had never been so disconnected as I was at that point in my life. And so as a result I spiraled, I fell to a 140 in the world. Everybody was shocked, except me. I knew every decision I was making daily that was leading me in the wrong direction. And when I got to the bottom, I had a big decision to make. Either I was gonna quit, or I was gonna start over. And that’s why I decided to take ownership of my life.” – Andre Agassi

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill

“Don’t let life… fuck you up. It’s yours! It’s yours to drive! … You carry yourself with you. You can’t run, I’ve tried to run … and I got money to run! But you meet yourself when you get there.” – Jenifer Lewis