Quotes That
Refuse to Be Quiet

“You are not accidental. The world could not have happened without you.”

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.

“You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage — pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically — to say no to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger yes burning inside.”

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

I am not afraid of storms,

for I am learning how to sail my ship.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

You were made for a world within a world within a world — and none of them require your apology.

You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously.

“We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.”

Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter.

Silence is the language of God. All else is poor translation.

Not everything that is faced can be changed,

but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal.”

She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that's important.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role.”

I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.

Grace is the gift of feeling sure that our future, even our dying, is more presence, not less.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart:

I am, I am, I am.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”

The longest journey is the journey inward.