L.B. Scott Quotes

There's just as much wisdom in knowing when to keep quiet as there is in knowing when to speak up. Use your voice wisely.

In my experience, it is always worth it to find the love that lives inside you. No matter how deep you have to dig sometimes.

Of the big five factors in happiness—flexible schedule, imagination, diet, exercise, and sleep—my pick for the most important is exercise.

Give people a chance.

Shit works out.

A happiness trick:do more things that make you happy, and you'll be happy more often.

There is absolutely no point in comparing ourselves to others. Everyone brings to the world exactly what they are meant to bring, and in doing so touches exactly who they are meant to touch.

No one determines your truth but you.You can’t paint your own self-portrait with someone else’s hand.

I finally stopped seeking in others everything I could only find in myself.

We can’t heal what we refuse to acknowledge.

I can’t control my feelings, but I’m learning to have a say in how much my feelings control me.

Your commitment to your happiness and well-being serves our entire world in powerful ways. Stay committed.You change our world for the better by changing your world for the better.

When some things don’t work out, other things do.Some of life’s most memorable and fun experiences happen precisely because things don’t go as planned.

Rather than seek happiness living my life to please the will of others, I will seek happiness where I know it can be found - living my life to please the will of my heart.

You have what you need to be happy.

I’ve finally figured out a way to stand strong on my own.

One of the most empowering things about being human is the fact that a single choice can change the entire direction of our lives. What are you choosing for yourself?

I was still water, held by my surroundings.I am now a river, carving my own path.

Making someone responsible for your misery also makes them responsible for your happiness. Why give that power to anyone but yourself?

We decide how much we want our past to be a part of our present.I stopped inviting the past into my life.It took the hint and stopped showing up.

I stayed, to love you.I left, to love myself.

We are powerful beyond measure, and we must stand powerfully in the face of injustice and hate.United.

How much longer until we finally figure out how to be with one another?How many times do we have to play out this pain?I’m ready for something different.Aren’t you.

You change our world for the better by changing our world for the better.

If only I could spend all my days surrounded by people brave enough to open their hearts for real.

If people aren't able to see your magnificence that's their loss, not yours.

Who are you not to be yourself?

Today is the perfect day to do something daring. Like just be yourself, for instance.

I can’t tell you anything about yourself you don’t already know…WAIT…unless you don’t know you’re an incredibly freaking amazing person with boundless gifts to share…then I can tell you that.

She felt wild and unruly, determined and free.

I told you we were meant to be, " he says, still smiling, still so Finn, who was always here but who I just didn't see and now--Well, now I kiss him.

It is. I’m your boyfriend now, whichmeans there’s no room for your hipster admirer. He’ll just have to lick his wounds while we lick other things.

On a ship that's made of paper, I would sail the seven seas. (Just to be with you.)

I laughed as we turned in a tight circle... "Tonight you're all mine."Jake smiled but looked me dead in the eye. "No. From now on."My heart skipped. "What?""Yours, " he said simply, "from now on.

[Ever been kissed?]I want to know if you've

Don't let the lies that darken our world keep you from living within your truth.

Anger gets me going.Hope sustains me.

He lifted himself out of the darkness of his fears, into a bright new world of possibility.

beneath the pain of your fears, wild and ready, lives your truth, the essence of your singular beauty, hoping, waiting for you to set it free.

He knew his words could not convey the impossible love he felt for her, so he held her stare and hoped (prayed!) she would understand the immensity of it all.

She shot out of her seat, tired of waiting, at last ready to create her future.

One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies. “They’re straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won’t die.

Someone once said that death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside of us while we live. I could tell you who said it, but who the hell really cares.

seeing a woman cough today made me sense a vague fear of death

Love me in actions, not in words.

The townspeople took the prince for deadWhen he never returned with the dragon’s headWhen with her, he stayedShe thought he’d be too afraidBut he loved her too much instead.

from my chair i can see the street and it seems depressing

holding a tiny dixie cup in my hand makes me feel like a giant human being that can crush things

I writeNotFor the sake of gloryNot For the sake of fameNotFor the sake of successBut for the sake of my soul

A true writer should be able to write about any color. It's the story they tell that should affect people, not the race.