Everything you lose becomes something you are profoundly grateful for. With time, you see that it was not the path. It was what was standing in your … - Brianna Wiest

Maybe you don’t need to find more energy, maybe you just need to find a dream that makes you actually want to get up in the morning. Maybe you need to find something that gives back more than it takes. Maybe you need to stop trying to be good at the hundred things that do not light up your soul, and finally choose the one that does — the one that asks you to risk, to lay your heart bare, to try again, even though you’re scared. You’re not failing because you’re not motivated. You’re not supposed to get far on a path that was never yours to walk.

Guilt is often an emotion we carry from childhood and then project onto current circumstances when we felt as though we were burdens to those around us.

The most successful people in history — the ones many refer to as “geniuses” in their fields, masters of their crafts — had one thing in common, other than talent: Most adhered to rigid (and specific) routines.