Alyanna Villanueva

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898 quotes curated by Alyanna Villanueva:

“Some pain shouldn’t be wished away so easily. It had to be dealt with even embraced.”
— Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus
Tagged: Pain, Challenges
“Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”
— Gayle Forman, If I Stay
Tagged: Choices, Life
“Every human being, with no exception, for the mere fact to be it, is worthy of unconditional respect of everybody else; he deserves to esteem himself and to be esteemed.”
— Carl Rogers, Client-centered therapy: Its current practice, implications and theory
Tagged: Self-Esteem, Respect
“But pain’s like water. It finds a way to push through any seal. There’s no way to stop it. Sometimes you have to let yourself sink inside of it before you can learn how to swim to the surface.”
— Katie Kacvinsky, First Comes Love
Tagged: Pain
“I went away in my head…That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.”
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Tagged: Reality, Escape
“If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life.”
— Abraham Maslow, Perfecting Private Practice
“Sometimes you hear a person speak the truth and you know that they are speaking the truth. But you also know that they have not heard themselves, do not know what they have said: do not know that they have revealed much more than they have said. This may be why the truth remains, on the whole, so rare.”
— James Baldwin, Just Above My Head
Tagged: Wisdom, Truth
“A beautiful thing is never perfect.”
— Egyptian Proverb, Egyptian Proverbs
Tagged: Perfection, Perspective, beauty
“Even if you’re unhappy, just pretend that you’re happy. Eventually, your smile will be contagious to yourself. I had to learn that. I used to think, ‘I’m being fake,’ but you know what? Better to be fake and happy than real and miserable.”
— Evangeline Lilly, Evangeline Lilly Calls Angelina Jolie Her Ideal ‘Ice Queen’
Tagged: Happiness, genuinity, actor, Roles, Individual, Angelina Jolie, Evangeline Lilly
“If she had known everything, it would not have been so easy to be brave.”
— Lois Lowry, Number the Stars
Tagged: Bravery, Wisdom