Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
― Marilyn Monroe
“The way of the Creative is to win others‘ hearts through following the truth within ourselves.” ~I Ching
I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. ~ Marilyn Monroe
Destructive criticism is the biggest single enemy of human potential. It is worse than cancer or heart disease. While those diseases can ultimately lead to the deterioration and death of an individual, destructive criticism kills the soul of the person but leaves the body walking around. – Brian Tracy
The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel. ~ Steven Furtick
It ain’t ’bout how good you are. It’s how bad you want it. So… bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise. ~ Robert Fritz
Follow your heart, but take your brain with you.
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, 1955
If it is important, you’ll find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse.
Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one’s courage. ~ Anais Nin
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Apologizing for saying what you feel is like say “sorry for being real..”
Rudeness is the weak person’s imitation of strength. ~Eric Hoffer
Wherever you go, go with all your heart. ~Confucius
Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come ALIVE. -H.Thurman
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you? ~Fanny Brice
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. ~Benjamin Disraeli
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character. ~John Morley
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself. ~Harvey Fierstein
Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep. ~Samuel Johnson,The Rambler, 1750
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ~e.e. cummings
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. ~ Robert Brault
I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it. ~Robert Brault
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Originality is… a by-product of sincerity. ~Marianne Moore
When one is pretending the entire body revolts. ~ Anais Nin
Beware of allowing a tactless word, rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky. ~ Anais Nin
Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their PASSION.
-Martha Graham
Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it. – Hebrews 13:2 of the Bible
If it looks good, you’ll see it. If it sounds good, you’ll hear it. If it’s marketed right, you’ll buy it. But if it’s true, you’ll feel it. - Kid Rock