Below are a selection of quotes that have inspired, fueled, and sometimes taunted me, may they do the same for you.
Write them in your journal, scrawl them on the fridge, keep them in front of your eyes, and let your doors be opened.
“The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing. ” ~ Jim Rohn
“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” ~ Miriam Beard
“One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” ~ Maya Angelou
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.” ~ Anatole France
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” ~ Howard Thurman
“If you wait to do everything until you’re sure it’s right, you’ll probably never do much of anything.” ~ Win Borden
“Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness” ~ Ayn Rand
“A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That’s why they don’t get what they want.” ~ Madonna
“Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.”
“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” ~ Lao Tzu
“I make myself rich by making my wants few.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.” ~ Alan Cohen
“Always do what you are afraid to do.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I’d just been myself.” ~ Brittany Renée
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” ~ Steve Jobs
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.” – Leo F. Buscaglia
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” – Aristotle
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb
“To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.” – Confucius
“Worry is like a rocking chair — it keeps you moving but doesn’t get you anywhere. ” – Corrie ten Boom
“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck
“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” – Ambrose Redmoon
“Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the people doing it” – Chinese Proverb
“If we do not change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going” – Chinese Proverb