"You build a revolution on ideas. If the population doesn't buy your ideas,it means they're not read, or you're wrong. There's this tendency for people to see any fight against the system as a fight for progress. As if the people before them couldn't possibly have gotten anything right. If you're using bombs instead of words, that means you're banking on people giving you what you want out of fear instead of reason. That's never a good sign."
Sylvain Neuvel, Only Human
"If you don't worry about something until it's already a problem, that's not worry. That's observation."
Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is
"When you own a penis you never forget."
Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is
"...fitting in and normal doesn't exist ... You can have matching genitalia and still not fit in. You can have matching genitalia, and still kids will be mean and make fun of you."
Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is
"If you wrote your own characters, they didn't disappoint you like real people did. If you told your own story, you got to pick your ending. Just being yourself never worked, but if you made yourself up, you got to be exactly who you knew yourself to be."
Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is
"I saw. I saw what horrors come from keeping it a secret. I saw what storms unleash when it's uncovered."
Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is
"All life [is change]. You are never finish, never done. Never become, always becoming. You know? Life is change so is always okay you are not there yet. Is like this for you and Poppy and everyone. The people who do not understand are change. The people who are afraid are change. There is no before and no after because changes is what is life. You live in change, in in between."
Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is
"You have to tell. It can't be a secret. Secrets make everyone alone. Secrets lead to panic ... When you keep it a secret, you get hysterical. You get to thinking you're the only one there is who's like you, who's both and neither and betwixt, who forges a path every day between selves, but that's not so. When you're alone keeping secrets, you get fear. When you tell, you get magic. Twice. ... You find out you're not alone. And so does everyone else. That's how everything gets better. ... You share your secret, and you change the world."
Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is
"The most important thing I've learned is that what you do will never define you for long. Who you are always will."
Abby Wambach, Wolfpack
"You get what you give, and not only that, the giving is already the getting. So don't hold back. Don't look back or forward too much. Just be there where you are now. You're always only in the day you're in."
Kim Stanley Robinson, Aurora
"You have to be brave enough to be vulnerable. Vulnerability is not weakness. It's an opportunity for high reward."
Brandi Chastain, The New York Times, The Sports Bra Seen Round the World Has New Meaning 20 Years Later
"Alice: This is impossible. The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is."
Alice in Wonderland (2010 film)
Marie Forleo,Everything is Figureoutable
"Attitude is more important than facts. If it more important than the past, than education, money, circumstances, than failures and success, than what other people think, say, or do. It is more important than appearance, ability or skill. It will make or break a business, a home, a friendship, an organization. The remarkable thing is I have a choice every day of what my attitude will be. I cannot change my past. I cannot change the actions of others. I cannot change the inevitable. The only thing I can change is attitude. Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it."
Alyssa Toomey, E-News, "Oprah Winfrey Talks Barbara Walters' Legacy; Former View Host Gets Teary Eyed While Talking About Her Final Show"
Marie Forleo,Everything is Figureoutable
"A fall is never final unless you stay on the ground."
Marie Forleo,Everything is Figureoutable
"Failure is just an event. It is not a characteristic. People can't be failures."
Marie Forleo,Everything is Figureoutable
"Clarity comes from engagement, not thought."
Marie Forleo,Everything is Figureoutable
So many young trans people dream of being an actor and don't think it's possible because they're trans. There is a point where I almost gave up. Luckily, I didn't... I don't like the term "role model", though. I prefer the term "possibility model".
Laverne Cox
Marie Forleo,Everything is Figureoutable
"You can control two things: your work ethic and your attitude about anything."
Ali Krieger
Marie Forleo,Everything is Figureoutable
"Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from."
Jodie Foster
Marie Forleo,Everything is Figureoutable
You never feel ready to do the important things you're meant to do."
Marie Forleo,Everything is Figureoutable
"Action spawns courage, not the other way round."
Marie Forleo,Everything is Figureoutable
"If you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
Erica Jong
Marie Forleo,Everything is Figureoutable
"It's not your job to like me, it's mine."
Byron Katie
Marie Forleo,Everything is Figureoutable
"There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through an other medium, and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open."
Martha Graham
Marie Forleo,Everything is Figureoutable
"Whether it's with friends, colleagues, or loved ones, remember this golden rule: whatever you long for, give to others."
Marie Forleo,Everything is Figureoutable
"What's the secret for an artist to have a long career today?
Quality - of everything you do. Make quality the priority, not speed. Speed is marketing, but you have to have something great to market."
Jimmy Iovine, Jimmy Iovine Knows Music and Tech. Here's Why He's Worried. by Ben Sisario