"Your assumptions about the lives of others are in direct relation to your naÃ¯ve pomposity. Many people you believe to be rich are not rich. Many people you think have it easy worked hard for what they got. Many people who seem to be gliding right along have suffered and are suffering. Many people who appear to you to be old and stupidly saddled down with kids and cars and houses were once every bit as hip and pompous as you."

-- Cheryl Strayed

#Believe Quotes #Kids Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“A leader has the capacity of vision, the ability to see where things are headed before people in general see those things.”
“The rider evolved to serve to the elephant.”
“If we have goals and dreams and we want to do our best, and if we love people and we donâ€™t want to hurt them or lose them, we should feel pain when things go wrong. The point isnâ€™t to live without any regrets, the point is to not hate ourselves for having themâ€¦ We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create, and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesnâ€™t remind us that we did badly â€” it reminds us that we know we can do better.”

Source : "33% of Adolescents Regret Their Tattoos, Study Finds" by Derek Beres, bigthink.com. April 11, 2017.
“Chronic pain or other challenges are invitations; gifts that challenge us to learn how to manage the mind.”
“I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me. How awful, backward, cowardly, and mentally warped that will be if it turns out to be true.”
“You wanted happiness, I canâ€™t blame you for that, and maybe a mouth sounds idiotic when it blathers on about joy but tell me you love this, tell me youâ€™re not miserable.”
“If we assiduously cultivate our powers of exaggeration, perhaps we, too, shall obtain the Paradise of Liars. And there Raphael shall paint for us scores and scores of his manifestly impossible pictures ... and Shakespeare will lie to us of fabulous islands far past 'the still-vex'd Bermoothes,' and bring us fresh tales from the coast of Bohemia. For no one will speak the truth there, and we shall all be perfectly happy.”
“The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.”

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