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I was never meant to be this thing.
Effort is the siamese twin of success
I make a good living doing what I do.
I accept any challenge, so challenge me
If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.
My heart is a protest that I let rally against my ribs.
This is my voice. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
We're all shipwrecked on this idea that everything has to be explained.
If you can't see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror.
I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up
I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.
Don't let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.
You see, the deaf have an intimacy with silence. It’s there in their dreams.
We grew up learning to cheer on the underdog because we see ourselves in them.
A question like “do you love me?” was an itch our doctors told us not to scratch.
When I was a kid, I used to think pork chops and karate chops were the same thing.
Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.
But we are more than genteel or civilized/ we are an idea in the process of being realized.
I've been shot down so many times, I get altitude sickness just from standing up for myself.
For me, poetry was... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through.
The tiniest dream that you make happen is worth more than the biggest dream that you never attempt.
We come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity
That’s what we were told—stand up for yourself. But that’s hard to do if you don’t know who you are.
Scrape the grey sky clean, realize that every dark cloud is a smokescreen meant to blind us from the truth
When something's painful, you just avoid it. Why bother dredging up the past if it's nothing but bad stuff?
To discover the thing you're brilliant at you first have to endure realizing all the things you're average at.
I don't want to turn any of this into poetry / but / you're so beautiful / flowers turn their heads to smell you
Our lives will only ever always continue to be a balancing act that has less to do with pain and more to do with beauty.
Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here.
Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley.
I think everybody gets bullied in their own way. Even athletes probably get it from their parents. To a degree everybody gets bullied.
My experiences with violence in schools still echo throughout my life but standing to face the problem has helped me in immeasurable ways.
For me, growing up and going to school and not seeing any anti-bullying posters and not hearing people talk about bullying was very desolate.
Don't tell me you're not beautiful. You're the kind of beautiful the blind would see if we could figure out some way to give them three seconds of sight.
Look at an avalanche, and see that we are at our most powerful when we let go. Look at a flower, and see that we are at our most beautiful when we open up.
I hid my heart under my bed because my mother said if you're not careful someday somebody's going to break it. Take it from me, under the bed is not a good hiding spot.
You, me, this city, this country, we will always have a choice.When you stand up to be counted, tell the world, THIS IS MY VOICE. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
I have loved this life. I smile because I have tiny dreams that play hopscotch at the corners of my mouth. And every time I breathe they float, every time I laugh, they fly kites.
Don't tell me that [broken heartstrings] hurt less than a broken bone, that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away, that there's no way for it to metastasize - it does.
Bullying, to me, starts very small around the kindergarten age where the first thing we learn is to call each other names. Something so small can be so long lasting in someone's life.
I accept that today may be imperfect... I accept that I may be as well. What I don't accept is that imperfection should be the crutch I use to excuse myself from participating in joy.
I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up I stand on mountain tops believing that avalanches will teach me to let go I know nothing but I am here to learn.
Maybe the best we can hope for is that those we leave behind find comfort in knowing, that we’re born out of love, and not science. That biology explains the how, but love explains the why
Having seen TED from a distance, I always thought if ever there was a place for someone like me, the outcasts, people who maintained who they are despite being told what they were, it was TED.
I got bullied a lot when I was a kid, and because of that I thought for the most part that I didn't really have a childhood - I had to grow up so quick and there was no real enjoyment in that for me.
Scrape the grey sky clean. Realize every grey cloud is a smoke screen to blind us from the truth, and the truth is whether we see them or not the sun and moon are still there, and always there is light.
I've been told that people in the army do more by 7:00 am than I do in an entire day But if I wake at 6:59 am and turn to you to trace the outline of your lips with mine I will have done enough and killed no one in the process.
I guess initially I was amazed that somebody would see something within my work that they could really relate to, but the more it's happened, the more people have come forward, I've really realized that we're all kind of going through the same thing at the same time.
If you think for one second no one knows what you've been going through; be accepting of the fact that you are wrong, that the long drawn and heavy breaths of despair have at times been felt by everyone - that pain is part of the human condition and that alone makes you a legion.
I will not stop. I will not slow down. I will not pull over to ask for directions. I will build the road that takes me where I want to be and I will drive, drive, drive. I will drive until the vehicle around me breaks down, falls apart and tumbles into useless debris... and then I will walk.