quotes about changing your life

Contrary to popular belief, there most certainly is an "I" in "team." It is the same "I" that appears three times in "responsibility." ~Amber Harding



Skipping isn't for everyone. Getting out of our comfort zones for a momentary skipping escape takes guts. It is much more difficult than many realize. Our ego likes to feel in control and is afraid of what others will think.... When we can learn to simply observe our ego's fear and then choose to skip on despite it, we develop the spiritual strength necessary for inner peace. ~Kim Corbin, founder of iskip.com



Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. ~Lillian Smith



Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known... then went crazy as a loon. ~The Simpsons by Matt Groening, spoken by the character Lisa



I mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains. You take a girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn't any brains. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 13



Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. ~Goethe Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. ~Logan Pearsall Smith



I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood. ~Bill Watterson



Your life may be the only Bible some people read. ~Author Unknown



Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. ~Robert Frost



Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience. ~Ernest Dimnet



Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. ~David Byrne



It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. ~John Steinbeck



The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fiber, and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes. ~Douglas Adams



I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. ~Alan Watts



You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt. ~Author Unknown



The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. ~William Faulkner



To crop or not to crop, that is the question. ~Author Unknown



When a sermon at length comes to an end, people rise and praise God, and they feel the same way after many other speeches. ~John Andrew Holmes



Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other. ~Carol Saline