Life is short, Isobeli. If we gave time to everything sooner or later we’d run out of it. We only have now. And we would be foolish to not seize it while we have it....

A sharp pain in her chest became more intoxicating with each breath she took. There it was. The reason she had forced herself to keep her distance from love. Why she had given up on...

Sometimes you just have to have faith in your own ideas. If you don’t someone else will. Why should it be them and not you? The only difference is who is willing to take a...

If you’ve ever been hungry, you can never be full.

Trying to mix the right shade of blue to paint the ocean sky; not quite sure how it will turn out; jumping into something new here, like a big ocean of newness.” -Jennifer Ritchie Payette,...

Sometimes a “mistake” can end up being the best decision you ever make.

If you wait for things to be perfect, you walk away with NOTHING. Just jump in and get started.

In case you never get a second chance: don’t be afraid!” “And what if you do get a second chance?” “You take it!

To live, to TRULY live, we must be willing to RISK. To be nothing in order to find everything. To leap before we look.

Everything you want lies on the other side of learning to trust yourself. Take a chance. Have faith. You already know who you are, what you want, and where you want to go.

‎”What does it mean if you tried to get somewhere, and you didn’t?” “Like what?” “Like if you were trying to get somewhere, but you couldn’t find it? Does that mean something bad?” “No. It...

Anything in your life that’s acting as a security blanket is only smothering the person you were born to be.

Never let your fear of the unknown and things being too difficult make your choices for you in life. One of the saddest lessons in life is finding out that your fear made the situation...

You get that one chance; and damn it, you’ve got to take it! If there’s one lesson I know I will take with me for eternity, its that there are those things that might happen...

If I had not try and taken chances, I would have miss many great opportunities in life.

He glanced over at me. ‘Scared? Of Reggie? What, she thinks he might force her to give up caffeine for real or something?”No,’ I said.’Of what, then?’ he asked.I paused, only just now realizing that...

A lifetime isn’t forever, so take the first chance, don’t wait for the second one! Because sometimes, there aren’t second chances! And if it turns out to be a mistake? So what! This is life!...

If art made you think, then this was Art. Staring at the ball, made of layers and layers of cloth, I wondered about the glass marble at its heart. What if you wanted to reach...

The danger of venturing into uncharted waters is not nearly as dangerous as staying on shore, waiting for your boat to come in.

I wondered about the explorers who’d sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they...

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.

I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then I didn’t want to use it up, because what do...

In order to fly you have to create space in the open air so that your wings can really spread out. It’s like a parachute. They only work from a high altitude. To fly you...

Trying and getting hurt can’t possibly be worse for you than being… stuck.