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“My belief is that we have an opportunity, each and every day, to make choices that can have a positive impact, or not. Each day we awake is like a reset. Decide each day to make impactful choices.”
― C. Toni Graham

“That’s what accountability really is—fulfilling a promise to ourselves.”
― Steve Pemberton, The Lighthouse Effect: How Ordinary People Can Have an Extraordinary Impact in the World

“The lighthouse does not qualify your distress; it does not ask if you are black or white, wealthy or less so, Democrat or Republican. It does not concern itself with where you stand on a particular issue. Nor does it blame you for being in the middle of the storm. Rather, its priority is how it might guide you toward safe harbor.”
― Steve Pemberton, The Lighthouse Effect: How Ordinary People Can Have an Extraordinary Impact in the World

“The most difficult examinations are the ones that require us to take a hard look at ourselves and confront the things we don’t like.”
― Steve Pemberton, The Lighthouse Effect: How Ordinary People Can Have an Extraordinary Impact in the World

“When we know what we are trying to achieve, we are less likely to be swayed by uninformed opinions and more inclined to make principled and ethical decisions.”
― Steve Pemberton, The Lighthouse Effect: How Ordinary People Can Have an Extraordinary Impact in the World

“Stopping in and of itself is not enough, and if that is all you focus on, then you run the risk of becoming overly self-critical and inadequate. What do you want to start doing?”
― Steve Pemberton, The Lighthouse Effect: How Ordinary People Can Have an Extraordinary Impact in the World

“Uncompromising belief is not only about pushing back against something we disapprove of. It also requires us to stand for something, whether that be a principle, a cause, or another human being.”
― Steve Pemberton, The Lighthouse Effect: How Ordinary People Can Have an Extraordinary Impact in the World

“But it is when the storm rages that we fully understand the courage the lighthouse represents. When the sea becomes a tempestuous beast, the lighthouse transforms to an urgent beacon signaling the way toward shelter, courageously defying the elements.”
― Steve Pemberton, The Lighthouse Effect: How Ordinary People Can Have an Extraordinary Impact in the World

“He stamps the cigarette out on the floor with his foot and says, “Sometimes I feel like I’m doing a really shitty job at being me.â€�
I shrug and say, “There’s a rumor going around that no one’s perfect.�
“So I heard.”
― Damien Blake, Harsh Generation

“â€� and as any mixed race person will tell you, to be half of two things is to be whole of nothing.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“I also sense that I am misusing the idea of being real whenever I discover myself anxiously weight my words and actions, that is, whenever I am being careful to be "real". When I do this I am only playing a new role - the role of the "real person". Calculation does not enter into being real. Concerns with appearances does not enter into it. Being real is more of a process of letting go then it is the effort of becoming. I don't really have to become me, although at times it feels this way - I am already me. And that is both the easiest and the hardest thing for me to realise.”
― Hugh Prather, Notes to Myself

“The gentlemen seemed better, but, perhaps, it was because I knew them less - perhaps, because they flattered me; but I did not fall in love with any of them; and, if their attentions pleased me one moment, they provoked me the next, because they put me out of humour with myself, by revealing my vanity and making me fear I was becoming like some of the ladies I so heartily despised.”
― Anne Bronte, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“Accepting that I know so little about myself is the beginning of understanding everything about life.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Carl saw Joselito in a big clean room full of light, with private bath and concrete balcony. And nothing to talk about there in the cold empty room, water hyacinths growing in a yellow bowl and the china blue sky and drifting clouds, fear flickering in and out of his eyes. When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light, lurked enigmatically in the high cool corners of the room. And what could I say feeling death around me, and in the little broken images that came before sleep, there in the mind?”
― William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

“Separating the art from the artist is hard to do when the art is so interconnected with who the artist is as a person.”
― Dominique Davis, Living Rent Free In My Head: Essays On Pop Culture

“...For it is only when we profoundly understand our own true nature that we can experience the world and reality as it is, unfiltered. Free of the hooks that otherwise push and pull us in different directions. Until then, we are like puppets to the shadow world and our own social programming.”
― Sita Bennett, She Who Rose From Ashes

“Al tempo non lo sapevo, che eravamo scuciti entrambi, rattoppati in modi diversi per resistere alla vita quanto bastava. Eravamo troppo giovani per realizzare che nel nostro disegno era stato cancellato qualcosa di fondamentale e che i nostri corpi cadevano male sulle nostre anime, mettendo in risalto ogni difetto. Lui, nella solidità della sua forma, conteneva a stento venti in tempesta; io avevo ossa sporgenti pronte a bucarmi la pelle e riversare fuori il dentro: la tristezza, l’indefinito, il bisogno.”
― Donatella Ceglia, Il corpo che indosso

“Perhaps all of this is done in the hopes that we won’t notice just how quickly everything is changing”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“Death does not discriminate. It is so even handed, so scrupulously fair, that it seems not fair at all. - Eeron Kleve, Iron Hand's Captain”
― Dan Abnett, The Unremembered Empire

“Why is empty space a comfort and a relief? It's not because I project myself there; it's because I can't. It shows me my projections, but they haven't left my mind. Empty space remains empty, always. And for a little while a small part of me can be empty too.”
― Amina Cain, Indelicacy

“Perhaps seclusion is exactly what’s needed to understand the depth that change presents to life.”
― Saim .A. Cheeda

“The irresponsibility of others must not hinder us from doing what is right and good.”
― Anna Moore Bradfield

“As ideias, as tuas memórias cobertas por madeiras e verniz e um crucifixo.”
― José Luís Peixoto, Morreste-me

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards solitude. - Tubal Kain”
― Graham McNeill, Vengeful Spirit

“When the future remains so unclear, why does the past so often intrude?

Because it is all that is definite.”
― Graham McNeill, The Crimson King

“What we do defines us. Our deeds are like shadows and depending on whether we run into or from the sun, they either lie behind us or before us. - Vulkan”
― Nick Kyme, Vulkan Lives (The Horus Heresy) by Nick Kyme (22-May-2014) Paperback

“From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.”
― Graham McNeill, The Crimson King

“The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.”
― Graham McNeill, The Crimson King

“We all were shaped by how others see us as much as our own character. - Svafnir Rackwulf”
― Graham McNeill, The Crimson King

“I might get to know something about myself that millions of others know better than I. If I could only see myself as others see me.”
― Leonard Nimoy, I Am Not Spock