A. O. Scott Quotes

If you can write each day, do it, and meet a quota. Minimum 350 words a day. A baboon can do 350 words a day. Don’t be shown up by a baboon

No man is ever just one thing.

take words and make them useful, ' she told me. 'drain them of all the crappy meanings they used to mean and make them mean something useful instead.

Tomorrow is another opportunity to improve yourself

Not everything is about you.In fact, most things aren’t.What a relief, right?

There is no downside to taking care of yourself.

A great giftwe can giveto ourselvesis a willingnessto love everyone, no matter what.This frees us completely from the toxicjustificationswe use to hate.

A change of attitude changes everything.A bad attitude never leads to a good life.

I am learning to accept everything about myself, even the part of me that struggles to accept everything about myself.

Become more committed to seeing what's right about you than you are to seeing what's wrong, and soon you'll start to feel a lot different about yourself.

You know the doubts. You are good enough. You are important. You are worthy. You are kind. You are all you need to be. You are love.

If you’ve given your all, and it's still not working, it's likely time to move on.

When our desire for truth outweighs our fear of change, we make choices that serve an open heart rather than a closed mind.

you are a person, not a shredder.so quit tearing yourself to shreds.

your enoughness is off the charts.

No one else can stop us from loving ourselves, just as no one else is to blame when we don’t. I promise to stop blaming your for everything I don’t like about myself.

I don’t wish for more time. I wish for more courage to live freely right now.

It’s amazing to consider just how many people smile at the thought of you.

i’m afraid i’ll lose you if i share all that’s real.i’m afraid i’ll lose myself if i don’t.

Isn’t it time to start giving yourself the great gift of your own love?

You can’t do everything for everyone, not even for yourself. It’s okay to ask for help when you need it.

My fear whispered to me, I am just trying to protect you.I whispered back, I know, but I’m stronger than you think.

Why not to choose to believe in yourself, just to see what happens?

Thank you for being such a beautiful friend. I am in awe of you.

Um, enough apologies, okay?Just get on with being your badass self.

I’m trusting that the pain of letting go will be eclipsed by the relief of moving on.

I had to break to pieces, so I could reassemble even stronger.

Listen to me, you’ve got this. Seriously, you’ve got this.

Option A:Spend your life trying to get others to accept you.Option B:Accept yourself, and spend your life with others who recognize what a beauty you are.

We are here to love. Everything else is distraction.

Maybe you’re not breaking down.Maybe you’re breaking through.

You are not your mind. You don’t have to believe the lies it tells you about yourself.

I’ve come to understand that life is a constant letting go.

Hey, Beautiful…There is room for all that you are and everything you have to offer our world.Share yourself.

There is so much we’ll likely never agree on, but can we at least agree to be respectful and kind to each other anyway.

Wait. Take your foot off the pedal. Instead, let your creativity drive you.

The most important thing in life is actually pretty simpleJust love, beyond every instinct there is not toThings will happen then. Good things

Yes, I'm a fan of living some part of each day with my head in the clouds.

The most beautiful thing I've ever seen I'm likely to see again and again in countless forms. Ah, thank you life.

I love when my mind focuses on how wonderful I am and lets all the other (less generous) thoughts recede into the background. You're wonderful too, by the way. Way wonderful.

There's so much love in this world.

Now is the perfect time to start making those changes you know you need to make.

Trust and be patient. You are making it happen, in your own way, it its own time.

a wish... that we may, each of us, with utter regularity, melt into the truth of our inescapable beauty.

Breathe deeply and remember to love.

It's not enough to open your eyes. You must open your heart as well.

A little creativity can make something ordinary, extraordinary, and something extraordinary that much more so.

No matter what's going on, I keep coming back to the one intention that makes the most sense:Just love.

It is love, has been love, will always be love that makes the biggest difference in our world.

[No single] explanation will ever contain the final answer for all time, for all hearers. There is always, ALWAYS more to learn.