person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
—Richard Bach
Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather than what you think, consider instead how you feel. Look to the nature of things. Feel your choices and decisions. It just might change everything.
—Jeffrey R. Anderson
When you make choices, please remember: what is good for you but not good for others won’t be good for you either, eventually; what’s good for you and others but not good for the Earth won’t be good for you or others either, eventually; what’s good for you, others, and the Earth will be good for all.
—Ilchi Lee
When I was seven years old, my parents took me to see my first Broadway show. From that day on, I wanted to be a scenic designer, someone who created those pretty stage pictures.
In grade school, my fellow classmates would write book reports. I, on the other hand, made a book-related diorama in an old shoe box. In high school, I took myself downtown and saw almost every show on Broadway. In college, I designed many of the school productions, and, with the help of one of the professors, got into Yale Drama School.
It was a three-year master’s degree program. They admitted twelve students the first year. Then, because they only produced eight plays in their smaller theater the second year, they let go of four designers. I was one of the first to go. In essence, they were telling me that I had no talent.
Soon after being booted from Yale, I became an apprentice in the scenic design union in New York City and finally became a full-fledged designer at CBS Television. My Yale classmates were still designing school productions. I was designing national television shows such as Captain Kangaroo, The Merv Griffin Show, and The Jackie Gleason Show.
Who said I had no talent? Who said I would never be a designer? Nobody could tell me I wasn’t one. In my mind, I had been a scenic designer since I went to grade school. I believed in myself, my talents, and my dream.
Hopefully the following powerful thoughts will encourage you to believe in yourself too.
Greatness is not this wonderful, esoteric, elusive, god-like feature that only the special among us will ever taste, it’s something that truly exists in all of us.
—Will Smith
I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.
—Hafez
There is a light which cannot ever be extinguished. It is inside of you. It is you.
—Neale Donald Walsch
Know yourself. Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
—Ann Landers
If you believe in yourself, anything is possible.
—Miley Cyrus
It is only in our darkest hours that we may discover the true strength of the brilliant light within ourselves that can never, ever, be dimmed.
—Doe Zantamata
We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.
—Marilyn Monroe
No one is perfect…absolutely no one. Like precious stones, we have a few flaws, but why focus on that? Focus on what you like about yourself, and that will bring you happiness and peace.
—Richard Simmons
If we walk the victim, we’re perceived as the victim. And if we enter… glowing and receptive… if we maintain our radiance and enter a situation with radiance, often radiance will come our way.
—Patti Smith
I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.
—Joel Osteen
We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.
—Isabel Allende
Use what you’ve been through as fuel, believe in yourself, and be unstoppable!
—Yvonne Pierre
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
—Marianne Williamson
I find that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, then everything in life works.
—Louise Hay
Wouldn’t it be powerful if you fell in love with yourself so deeply that you would do just about anything if you knew it would make you happy? This is precisely how much life loves you and wants you to nurture yourself. The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.
—Alan Cohen
You yourself, as much as anyone in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
—The Buddha
Your relationship with yourself is the blueprint for all the relationships in your life. Want more love in your life? Be more loving toward yourself.
—Susyn Reeve
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
—Oscar Wilde
When one is out of touch with oneself, one cannot touch others.
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything is within your power,
and your power is within you.
—Janice Trachtman
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
—Henry van Dyke
We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.
—Mary
