Feel free to add your own. I've found that all these quotes have spoken to me during my transition and some still do.


"Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too was a gift." - Mary Oliver

"No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don't." - Stephen King

"Sometimes you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are." - H.G. Wells

"The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself." - Deepak Chopra

"You must strive to find your own voice because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all." - Robin Williams

"No relationship is ever a waste of time. If it didn't bring you what you want, it taught you how to handle unwanted things." - Anon.

Peter, these are the years when a man changes into the man he's going to be for the rest of his life. Just be careful who you change into. - Uncle Ben - Spider-man 2002
Pansy

Don't be afraid to be weak
Don't be too proud to be strong
Just look into your heart my friend
That will be the return to yourself
The return to innocence.
Lyrics for Return to Innocence By Enigma

A ship in the harbor is safe.

But that is not what ships are meant for.

Only way to do it is your way

"We all change. When you think about it; we're all different people, all through our lives. And that's okay, that's good. You gotta keep moving. So long as you remember all the people that you used to be. I will not forget one line of this, not one day. I swear." - Matt Smith as the 11th Doctor prior to regeneration into the 12th.

For some reason this made me bawl this morning. Really hit home and I had to run here and share it.

Kami

"There will be haters, there will be doubters, there will be non-believers, and then there will be you, proving them wrong." - Anon

"Family isn't always blood. It's the people in your life who want you in theirs. The ones who accept you for who you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile, and who love you no matter what." - Anon

"Keep going. You are getting there." - Anon

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to love as one wishes to live." - Oscar Wilde

"The greatest things you'll regret in life are the things you don't do." - Hugh Jackman

"What is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself." -- Anna Quindlen.

"Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience." - Anon

"The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are." - Anon

"Sometimes you have to do what's best for you and your life, not what's best for everybody else." - Anon

"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us."  - Alexander Graham Bell

"When the wrong people leave your life, the right things start happening." - Anon

"Never run back to whatever broke you." - Anon

Quote from: Hanazono on November 24, 2014, 04:05:44 AM
逆水行舟，不进则退

the boat going upstream must advance or it will be pushed backwards

是的! 正确的你说

Gotta love those short but eloquent idioms .

"Don't wait. The time will never be just right."  - Mark Twain

"All frustrations are self-induced. The outside world can invite us to become upset, but we ultimately accept the invitation." - Anon

"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway." - Earl Nightingale

"Never let your fear decide your future." - Anon

"The hardest battle you are ever going to have to fight is the battle to just be you." - Leo Buscaglia

Quote from: Nicole on November 20, 2014, 05:52:51 PM
Only way to do it is your way

Yes. I'm doing it MY way.

"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place." - Nora Roberts

"If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello." - Paul Coehlo

"Close some doors. Not because of pride, incapacity, or arrogance, but simply because they no longer lead somewhere." - Anon

"Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and start being positive about what could go right." - Anon

"One day, you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now." - Paul Coehlo

"Don't let your history interfere with your destiny." - Dr. Steve Maraboli

"You've been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens." - Louise Hay

"Sometimes you have to let go and see what happens." - Anon

"Be yourself; because an original is worth more than a copy." -Anon

"In any given moment we have two options: step forward into growth or to step back into safety" - Abraham Maslow

My thoughts for today are that I've already eaten too much turkey/food yesterday. And it 's time to get back on my diet.  I'm going to color my hair today, try on a lot of dresses in my closet to build some nicer outfits & get ready for a lunch date with my electro lady next week. She is going to make me over the way she thinks looks best & she is also giving me some of her older shoes & boots since we are the same shoe size.

Long holiday weekend, but more thoughts!

"You are a hurricane of a girl; remember to breathe every once and a while, do not drown within your own storm." - Anon

"You can't force people to stay in your life. Staying is a choice, so be thankful for people who choose you." - Anon

"To create space for new experiences, one needs to clear out the old." - Diane Adkins

"You are confined only by the walls you build yourself." - Anon

"Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and start being positive about what could go right." - Anon

I am not so keen on quotations, as most of them are dead negatives.

Do this, do that. But sometimes circumstances do not allow for it to happen. I am a product of my history, an accumulation of what I have been taught and experienced, good or bad.

I don't take them as rules but as positive affirmations.

i.e. "You are confined only by the walls you build yourself." - Anon

I don't see that as an absolute rule but it echoes true with myself and I know with many other trans people. We built walls and let ourselves be confined behind them, believing in the walls instead of ourselves.

I'm not trying to tell people to "do this" or "do that" but to affirm, that throughout human endeavors, not just with trans people, that we all struggle, we all need positive affirmations, and we all should have faith in ourselves, our own hearts, and to try to be ourselves, above all else.

For today. I'm dissapointed that my body shape has not changed much & that I still do not any real hips or smaller waist........ I want to go into the plastic surgeon for liposuction of all old "male" fat.......so he can improve my body to a nicer feminine shape. I know the doc can do this & we have discussed it before but I'm just scarred to get cut again, the expense & the time to heal up after surgery. So just eating Subway & hoping HRT will help change my body normally even though I know it will not. So maybe soon I will gather the courage to get put under & let my doc improve my body as he did my face. He does excellent work.

"Never give up, great things take time." - Anon

"There will be many chapters in your life. Don't get lost in the one you are in now." - Anon

"Old ways won't open new doors." - Anon

"I literally have to remind myself all the time, that being afraid of things going wrong isn't the way to make things go right." - Anon

"It doesn't matter how this looks to other people. If this is something you gotta do, then you do it. Fighters fight." - Rocky Balboa

"Look closely at the present you are constructing. It should look like the future you are dreaming." - Alice Walker

"May the space between where I am and where I want to be inspire me." - Tracee Ellis Ross

"Be stubborn about your goals but flexible about your methods." - Anon

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny." - C.S. Lewis

"You can't reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday's work." - Louise Smith