Best 23 quotes in «note to self quotes» category

Don’t do it. Don’t go to that job you hate. Do something you love today. Ride a roller coaster. Swim in the ocean naked. Go to the airport and get on the next flight to anywhere just for the fun of it. Maybe stop a spinning globe with your finger and then plan a trip to that very spot; even if it’s in the middle of the ocean you can go by boat. Eat some type of ethnic food you've never even heard of. Stop a stranger and ask her to explain her greatest fears and her secret hopes and aspirations in detail and then tell her you care because she is a human being. Sit down on the sidewalk and make pictures with colorful chalk. Close your eyes and try to see the world with your nose — allow smells to be your vision. Catch up on your sleep. Call an old friend you haven’t seen in years. Roll up your pant legs and walk into the sea. See a foreign film. Feed squirrels. Do anything! Something! Because you start a revolution one decision at a time, with each breath you take. Just don’t go back to that miserable place you go every day. Show me it’s possible to be an adult and also be happy. Please. This is a free country. You don’t have to keep doing this if you don’t want to. You can do anything you want. Be anyone you want.

Be bigger presence at work. Race up ladder (joyfully, w/smile on face), get raise. Get in best shape of life, start dressing nicer. Learn guitar? Make point of noticing beauty of world? Why not educate self re. birds, flowers, trees, constellations, become true citizen of natural world, walk around neighborhood w/kids, patiently teaching kids names of birds, flowers, etc. etc.? Why not take kids to Europe? Kids have never been. Have never, in Alps, had hot chocolate in mountain café, served by kindly white- haired innkeeper, who finds them so sophisticated/friendly relative to usual snotty/rich American kids (who always ignore his pretty but crippled daughter w/braids) that he shows them secret hiking path to incredible glade, kids frolic in glade, sit with crippled pretty girl on grass, later say it was most beautiful day of their lives, keep in touch with crippled girl via email, we arrange surgery here for her, surgeon so touched he agrees to do surgery for free, she is on front page of our paper, we are on front page of their paper in Alps? Ha ha.

confront your greatest fears voice your biggest problems acknowledge your tiniest issues the longer you stay silent the louder they become they won't disappear if you ignore them they will spread and affect all aspects of your life

Do one good thing everyday, that someone is afraid to do

i am broken up after being broken up with

If you are on social media, and you are not learning, not laughing, not being inspired or not networking, then you are using it wrong.

Any belief worth embracing will stand up to the litmus test of scrutiny. If we have to qualify, rationalize, make exceptions for, or turn a blind eye to maintain a belief, then it may well be time to release that belief.

Doing something for the mere joy of it—for one's self or others—is quite possibly one of the best returns on an investment of time that a person can receive.

Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, and what we think is what we live.

Iapetus shall crush you!” one shouted. “Who?” I asked. Then I ran her through with my sword. Note to self: If you vaporize monsters, they can’t answer your questions.

One of the benchmarks of great communicators is their ability to listen not just to what's being said, but to what's not being said as well. They listen between the lines.

Note to self: You have to start forgiving yourself for the time you’ve waste on things that never mattered. Forgive yourself for giving second chances to people who have once taken you for granted. Forgive yourself for giving up on your dreams instead of working on them and making them come true. And you have to forgive yourself for every second you spent it not smiling, not laughing, and not living …

sometimes even the worst dreams are better than this reality

Sound judgment is absolutely necessary to stay alive. Being judgmental—critical—is not. They are two very different things.

The dead only knows their world.

People who are adept in healthy self-expression exercise front-end consideration before speaking.

sometimes the quiet ones are yelling on the inside

The most important progress and success can't be seen. If you can validate yourself internally, then external validation becomes a byproduct.

They say the truth will set you free, but what they neglect to mention is what happens when the truth isn't what you want to hear.

today my heart was ripped in two one half for me, one half for you take a half and keep it near i have mine and will always be here crossing paths before the end once a lover, forever a friend

When we inhabit our own life—stop doing things based on the approval of others—we offload baggage and trade up to joy!

You suffered a lot, I know You've been through many things that no one knows It made you cry It made you weak It made you lay on bed all day Hoping when you wake up it's all gone But despite all of those, you survived Yes it's still there --- But you're fighting Keeping the faith Making the best out of yourself

Write stories about your life. The difficulties you have faced, all your faults and fears. Write them for yourself, write them to understand yourself fully.