The funny thing is, nobody really ever knows how much anybody else is hurting. We could be standing next to someone who is completely broken, and we wouldn't even know it.
—Unknown
When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.
—Jane Fonda
Originality
by Jim Jarmusch
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows.
Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.
If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don't bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it.
In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said:
"It's not where you take things from - it's where you take them to."
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the things you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
—Mark Twain
God doesn't give you the people you want, he gives you the people you need. To help you, to hurt you, to leave you, to love you and to make you the person you were meant to be.
—Unknown
You don't have time to convince everybody to like you. Your time is too great to fight battles that don't matter. If someone doesn't praise you, they don't matter. If someone leaves you, you didn't need them. I love loyal people, I love the ones that I know will accept me through every decision I make. When you realize that you can't please everybody, you're going to see new seasons of growth, new opportunities, and God will take you to new places that you've never even dreamed of. Your destiny is too great to be wasted on other people who won't accept you.
—Unknown
Do not regret growing older; it is a privilege denied to many.
—Unknown
It's true that bad things happen to good people but it's also true that good people overcome bad things.
—Ronnel Sancho
If your 8 year old self met you, would they be proud?
—Unknown
Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
—Lois McMaster Bujold