Enthusiasm Quotes

I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to.

By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing.

Today is a brand new beginning for me!

In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.

One of these days I'm going to put my body where my mind is.

Wasn't it beautiful when you believed in everything?

Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.

I love you every day, Mom

No matter what you face, don't forget if you're positive, positivity will find you and embrace you.

Loving ourselves is a revolutionary act!

Stay positive, all other choices are pointless punishments to your psyche.

I understand true life doesn't happen when I constantly gaze backwards, mulling over all the injustices others have done or I have done to others.

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

To spend your time wanting things is to smother your time for achieving things beyond your expectations.

Thoughts are king, Trixie, king!

For at some point, each of us will be asked to embody what we feel and know.

I always like to be in the presence of people who are good at and love their jobs, Irrespective of their jobs.

Respect is a kind of magic too, you know.

Can I love someone...and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.

Leave no path untaken.

Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.

The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.

Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.

Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.

I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it.

He is nothing more than one of my pawns. However, he is not a normal pawn. He is a pawn that can get across the whole board in one move.

To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us.

You have a spark. It is real. It is you. And right now, it is being activated. You cannot ignore the spark any longer.

This isn't the end, and a beginning looks different. This is the moment in between, when everything still looks possible.

Key message to all patients: Let go of all negativity and empower your body through your positivity.

Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as you do that, part of her will always be alive in you.

The next time you get scared, get sacred!

You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn't.

I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.

Philosophy has forgotten about children

By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.

Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction.

Freedom was the price of privacy.

Follow your heart. Just don't get lost.

In the experience is the emotion. In the emotion is the gift.

Intelligent resistance keeps the true self alive

There's no hurt so great that love can't heal it.

And it's always better, isn't it, when you discover answers on your own?

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.

What is it that would make a creature as fierce, majestic and powerful as a lion is, subject itself to the intimidation of a man a whip and a chair? The lion has been taught to forget what it is.

We're on a hunt, Cooper. When you're on a hunt, you do whatever it takes.

Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese.

To forgive does not mean to forget.

We are currently facing countless hurdles and obstacles, BUT will never lose the sight of infinite hope.

What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.