Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of others to shape their own qualities.
— Michael Bassey JohnsonKnow that the same spark of life that is within you, is within all of our animal friends, the desire to live is the same within all of us...
— Rai ArenThe wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.
— Friedrich NietzscheKiss your scars. Fall in love with them. They ought to serve as life-affirming reminders—a lingering trace of hope. The only reason we have these scars is because we survived and are still here.
— Kamand KojouriI can always look up at the cosmos and marvel, no matter what happens. And when I look up at it, I feel as though my problems are small. I don't know why, but it always makes me feel better.
— Matthew QuickSometimes our dreams are affirmed in the most unlikely ways by the mostunlikely people. That’s why we need to speak our commitment out loud.
— Gina GreenleeOne has to understand that THINKING and WORRYING are polar opposites, though functioning from same source MIND. While THINKING, is a life-affirmative phenomenon which promotes positivity, hope and motivates the soul to reach higher sphere of life. WORRYING, solely makes one more vulnerable to restlessness & depression driving into life-negative state.
— Ramana PemmarajuRole models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you.
— Rasheed OgunlaruIt is in this sense that Nietzsche is driven, against many explicit resolutions to the contrary, to be a No-sayer. For what the décadents who surround him are doing is to say No where they should be saying Yes, where they should be Dionysian; and what is leading them to this life-denying perversity, mostly of course unconsciously, is that they subscribe to a set of values that puts the central features of *this* world at a discount. Where they find suffering, they immediately look for someone to blame, and end up hating themselves, or generalize that into a hatred of 'human nature'. They look for 'peace of mind', using it as a blanket term and failing to see the diversity of states, some of them desirable and some of them the reverse, which that term covers. They confuse cause and effect, thinking that the connection between virtue and happiness is that the former leads to the latter, whereas in fact the reverse is the case. They have, in Nietzsche's cruelly accurate phrase, 'the vulgar ambition to possess generous feelings' ('Expeditions of an Untimely Man, number 6). They confuse breeding fine men with taming them. Throughout the major part of Twilight this devastating list of our vulgarities continues.
— Michael TannerYour journey on earth is personal journey of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita