"You need to push yourself, put yourself in uncomfortable situations rather than stick to your comfort zone."

“Fur used to turn heads, now it turns stomachs.”

“I've met people and have mentors that have taught me and I'm still trying to get better today.”

Source : "Gigi Hadid Hates the Gym, Loves Carbs, and Just Got Her First Fitness Campaign". Interview with Kristina Rodulfo, www.elle.com. October 4, 2016.

“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”

“Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.”

“The more one knows, the luckier he is, for knowledge is the greatest gift in life.”

Source : L. Frank Baum (2008). “7 Books in 1: L. Frank Baum's "Oz" Series, Volume 1 of 2. the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the Marvelous Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz, Dorothy”, p.678, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

“For God is good - or rather, of all goodness He is the Fountainhead.”

“I did have a dog for a few years when I was little, but then just really had cats until I was about 21.”

“I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.”

Source : Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”