“Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.” ~Voltaire

“Nothing is more terrifying than this feeling. It claws at your stomach, burns your heart, freezes your innards and causes your soul to leak from between your eye lashes. It’s tear stained cheeks and down turned lips and shuffling feet. Goose bumps crawl across your skin, shivers run havoc up your spine, you ache from within. You are not alone.”

“Something I’d like people to know: when I say I can’t do this, what I mean is that I can’t do this without losing a part of myself I really want to keep.”

“When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.” ~Cynthia Heimel

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” ~Mae West

“We never know what will happen but I believe good things happen every day. I believe good things happen even when bad things happen. And I believe on a happy day like today, we can still feel a little sad. And that’s life, isn’t it?” ~The book Elsewhere

“Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say “infinitely” when you mean “very”; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.” ~C.S. Lewis

“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.” ~Erica Jong

“You have to forget what other people say, when you’re supposed to die, or when you’re supposed to be loving. You have to forget about these things. You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.” ~Jimi Hendrix

“That’s life. For everyone who loves you, there will be others who hate you. If no one’s upset by what you’re saying, you’re probably not pushing hard enough and you’re probably boring too.” ~ReWork