compile a list of 100 quotes

promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true. think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best. forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others. live in the faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you.
-christian d. larson

22. “Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality”
23. “Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other”
24. “Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon”
25. “Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risks”

all by the Dalai Lama :)

from multiple ‘texts’ .... great words come from many sites

“the sea’s only gifts are harsh blows, and occasionally, the chance to feel strong. now, i don’t know much about the sea, but i do know that that’s the way it is here, and i also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong. to measure yourself at least once. to find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions, facing the blind, deaf stone alone, nothing to help you but your hands and your own head.” – alexender supertramp

“i had a thought, on the way home from the rock field, that things we don’t know about a person are the things that make them human, and it made me feel sad to think that, but sad in that reassuring way that some sadness has, a sadness that says welcome home in twelve different languages.”

“because it’s not love to be static like the desert, nor is it love to roam the world like the wind. and it’s not love to see everything from a distance like you do. love is the force that transforms and improves….because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.”

“you measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you” – carter

“sometimes the most illuminating pages on the artistic process have been written by minor artists, who achieved modest effects but knew how to ponder their own processes.”

“we do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit” e.e. c

always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
- e.e. cummings

unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
- also, e.e. cummings

“if we’re busy trying to rewind the future will slip away.”

still trying to grasp this one… the past is so familiar, the future is so unknown.

“The thing to remember is that the future comes one day at a time.”

one day, one hour, one moment at a time. sometimes, that just what we need to do, to make it through.

“all people want is somebody to listen”

it’s true. so, im listening…

“the idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting” -andy warhol

& so, i’m waiting… ... ... ...

“we are what we repeatedly do” – aristotle

“never, never, never give up”

just when you think the never’s are going to stop, theres another one to cap it off.
every time i say this quote in my head i feel it’s meaning on the inside.

“our strength grows out of our weaknesses”
-ralph waldo emerson

“storms make trees take deeper roots”
- dolly parton

i hope with all my heart that these are true.