“You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.”
― Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free

“The discontent and frustration that you feel is entirely your own creation.”
― Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free

“Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

“When you concentrate your energy purposely on the future possibility that you aspire to realize, your energy is passed on to it and makes it attracted to you with a force stronger than the one you directed towards it.”
― Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free

“You don't have to be good at something to be liked.”
― Stephen Richards

“Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.”
― Franz Kafka

“I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“I don't think she doesn't believe she can die. I think, just like you always did, she believes there are things worth dying for.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Lost Souls

“Every sunrise is priceless and you can experience the richness that life holds only when you live life to the full instead of just being an onlooker.”
― Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free

“Without desires and dreams, your thoughts do not matter and you can think whatever you want to.”
― Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free

“Never allow your mind to wander untamed like a wild animal that exists on the basis of survival of the fittest. Tame your mind with consistent focus on your goals and desires.”
― Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free

“Grateful souls focus on the happiness and abundance present in their lives and this in turn attracts more abundance and joy towards them.”
― Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free

“I HOLD

If I could have had
him,
I could have let
him
go.

But without
the having
there was
nothing—
so to the nothing
I
hold.”
― Coco J. Ginger

“If you want me, you'll have to earn me. And, mister, I don't come cheap.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Fancy Pants

“God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Manifesting is a lot like making a cake. The things needed are supplied by you, the mixing is done by your mind and the baking is done in the oven of the universe.”
― Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free

“What we perceive about ourselves is greatly a reflection of how we will end up living our lives.”
― Stephen Richards, Boost Your Self Esteem

“The difference between being mediocre and achieving excellence is you.”
― Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free

“But what if I did tell people exactly what was going on? What if I valued my own peace of mind more than what other people think of me? Would I end up jobless, friendless, and loveless? Would I vanish entirely?”
― Melissa Broder, So Sad Today: Personal Essays

“For this reason the gentleman will employ a man on a distant mission and observe his degree of loyalty, will employ him close at hand and observe his degree of respect. He will hand him troublesome affairs and observe how well he manages them, will suddenly ask his advice and observe how wisely he answers. He will exact some difficult promise from him and see how well he keeps it, turn over funds to him and see with what benevolence he dispenses them, inform him of the danger he is in and note how faithful he is to his duties. He will get him drunk with wine and observe how well he handles himself, place him in mixed company and see what effect beauty has upon him. By applying these nine tests, you may determine who is the unworthy man.”
― Confucius

“If I could bronze my love, it’d be worthy of a silver medal.
”
― Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.

“It is not enough if you just live life as it comes to you like a floating leaf in a pond. Make use of the powers bestowed in you and soar like an eagle.”
― Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free

“A good self-esteem level is mostly dependant on how we value ourselves without any bias.”
― Stephen Richards, Boost Your Self Esteem

“Be a worthy worker and work will come.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“A person today who seems to have a great sense of self-esteem has his or her childhood days to thank for it.”
― Stephen Richards, Boost Your Self Esteem

“Once we open our eyes to the infinite magic that the universe has in abundance, we are sure to be enthralled by what we see and this miraculous creation gets us closer to our dreams and to the world as a whole.”
― Stephen Richards, Think Your way to Success: Let Your Dreams Run Free

“When you start something, make sure that you're willing to take the time to finish it right because, honey, the work you put into it will be more than worth it in the end. The best things always are.”
― C.M. Stunich, Losing Me, Finding You

“Failure is an option, fear is not.”
― James Cameron

“Love did not have to make sense. It did not have to be worthy. It did not have to be earned. It did not have to woo.
It just simply was.”
― Mary Balogh, Then Comes Seduction

“Don't ever say that, Fennrys," she said. "I don't ever want to hear you say that you don't deserve or you aren't worthy. You do. You are.”
― Lesley Livingston, Starling