Growing Wise Growing Careful

Brandon, 32

[radical-revolution]

Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.

Pema Chodron

[thehopefulquotes]

“All you can do in life is to be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won’t like you at all.”

— Rita Mae Brown (via thoughtkick)

[quotefeeling]

“When people are ready they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can’t make them change if they don’t want to, just like when they do want to, you can’t stop them.”

— Andy Warhol

[lonequixote]

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”

— Henry David Thoreau (via lonequixote)

[quotemadness]

“You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.”

— John Wooden

[acknowledgetheabsurd]

Albert Camus

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[thehopefulquotes]

“You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.”

— Nicky Gumbel (via nightlyquotes)

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

“People need to be encouraged. People need to be reminded of how wonderful they are. People need to be believed in - told that they are brave and smart and capable of accomplishing all the dreams they dream, and more. Remind each other of this.”

— Stacey Jean Speer

[theaislethread]

[delta-breezes]

[blackgirlsreverything]

[brickx]

Never because I’m still surviving ffs.

[macrolit]

“To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”

—

e e cummings (1894-1962) American poet and painter

[brickx]

I have been in love with ee cummings for as long as I have had memories.

[philosophybits]

“What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. It is, with all its might and main, what it is, and makes one and the same impression and effect at all times.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Natural History of Intellect

[quotefeeling]

“You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”

— The Notebook

[stay-close]

Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.'

— John Greenleaf Whittier, Maud Muller - Pamphlet

[thehopefulquotes]

“You make mistakes. Mistakes don’t make you.”

— Maxwell Maltz (via thoughtkick)

[quotemadness]

“It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to, has power over you, if you allow it.”

— Unknown