"It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting." - Paul Coelho

"If it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you." - Anon

"Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow." - Anon

"Yes, I've made mistakes. Life didn't come with instructions." - Anon

"You know you're on the right track when you're not interested in looking back." - Anon

Without effort in transitioning, even though on HRT, I'm stuck, since my energies are going to graduate school. It's going to be weird once school is out in the next several months, once I graduate, hopefully. More time after work to focus my energies on transitioning, instead of graduate school.

You go at your pace, Sonadora. Just stay focused. Even small steps will add up eventually.




"No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow your progres, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying." - Anon

"If the plan doesn't work, change the plan but never the goal." - Anon

"There's a special place in my heart for the ones who were with me at my lowest and still loved me when I wasn't very lovable." - Anon

"In life we never lose friends, we only learn who the true ones are." - Anon

"Believe in who you are going to become. Don't let your past define you!" - Anon

"If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be." - Maya Angelou

"Do your little bit of good where you are, it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world." - Desmond Tutu

"Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means you still have enough self respect to walk away from people who do not respect your feelings." - Anon

"You can't always wait for the perfect moment. Sometimes you must dare to do it because life is too short to regret and wonder what might have been." - Anon

"Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale." ― Lila DiPasqua, The Duke's Match Girl - A Fiery Tale Novella

"When you completely trust another person, you will end up with one of two outcomes. A friend for life or a lesson for life. Both, regardless of the outcome, are valuable." - Anon

"Some won't appreciate you no matter how much you do for them. Release yourself. Go where you're appreciated and understood." - Robert Tew

"The tragedy of life is not death, but what we let die inside of us while we live." - Norman Cousins

"If you keep telling the same sad small story, yoou will keep living the same sad small life." - Jean Houston

"Believing in yourself is the first secret to success." - Anon

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." ― Oliver Goldsmith

"Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own." - Bruce Lee

"Running away from your problems is a race you'll never win." - Anon

"Ignite the fire inside of you." - Anon

"Your outlook in life defines who you are." - Anon

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." ― George Bernard Shaw

"Each day is an adventure in discovering the meaning of life." ― Jack Canfield

"If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies." - Anon

"You are not strange. You are beautifully, impossibly unique. Own that and you can stop apologizing and minimizing and start living and celebrating." - Anon

"I'm thankful for nights that turned into mornings, friends that turned into family, and dreams that turned into reality." - Anon

"Nothing holds you back more than your own insecurities." - Anon

"Be kind to yourself. The seeds we plant within are the harvest we have to give." - Mary Davis

"The number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying." - Tom Hopkins

"You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!" ― John Lennon

"Forgive it enough to move on... Remember it enough so it doesn't happen again." - Anon

"So often we become so focused on the finish line that we fail to enjoy the journey." - Anon

"Just be yourself. Let people see the real, imperfect, flawed, quirky, weird, beautiful, and magical person that you are." - Anon

"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes... including you." - Anne Lamott

"Don't dwell on the times you've failed. You're not a failure unless you quit. Move forward with your life." - Anon

"The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials." - Confucius

"Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps." — David Lloyd George

"In life, I have made a lot of mistakes and felt a lot of pain. My pain made me stronger and my mistakes made me wiser." - Dave Hedges

"Failure is like a stairway; you decide whether it takes you to the bottom or whether it leads you to the top." - Anon

"Sometimes life takes us to where we never wish to be, then we realize it's where we truly belong." - Anon

"Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing." ― Denis Waitley

"One of the saddest things is to accept that some people can only be in your heart, not in your life." - Anon

"All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney

"Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you." - Ovid

"Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene." - Arthur Christopher Benson

"People don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"I believed I would be successful long before I actually was." - Johnny Wimbrey

"Don't wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect." ― Abraham Hicks

"If you never try, you'll never know." - Anon

"You never know which door will lead you towards your dreams, until you have the courage to walk through it." - Anon

"When you start seeing your worth, you'll find it harder to stay around people who don't." - Anon

"I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy." ― Richard Bach

"There are no problems, only solutions." ― John Lennon

"I'm stronger because I had to be. I'm smarter because of my mistakes. I'm happier because I have overcome the sadness I've known and I'm wiser because I have learned from my life." - Dave Hedges

"What you do today can improve all your tomorrows." - Anon

"Own who you are." - Anon

"Not everyone will understand your journey. That's okay. You're here to live your life, not to make everyone understand." - Anon

"The length of your shoe may change, the size of your pants may change; but your life will never change until your mind changes." - Israelmore Ayivor

"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge." - Charles Spurgeon

"You are so much more than what you see in the mirror." - Anon

"The most confused we get is when we try to convince our heads of something our hearts know is a lie." - Karen Morning

"Why be a copy when you were born to be an original?" - Oscar Wilde

"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears." - Cesare Pavese

"If they left you, you didn't need them. If they walked away, they weren't part of your destiny." - Anon

"When your past calls, don't answer. It has nothing new to say." - Anon

"I admire people who choose to shine even after all the storms they have been through." - Anon

"It's better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction." - Anon

"In the age of information, ignorance is a choice." - Donny Miller

"The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears." - A.C. Benson

"To move the world, we must first move ourselves." - Socrates

"One of the greatest weaknesses in most of us is our lack of faith in ourselves." - L. Tom Perry

"A single dream can launch a journey of a lifetime." - Anon

"Fear can never completely be eradicated from the mind, but it can be tempered. Human beings overcome fears that seem insurmountable every day. If you are reading this, you are human. What one human can do another human can do. Know this, believe this, and you will come to know that the courage you see in others resides in yourself. It always has." - Fallon Fox

"Be true to yourself and stop caring about what others think of you." - Anon

"The Problem is not the problem; the problem is your attitude about the problem" - Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp)

"Life is too ironic to fully understand. It takes sadness to know what happiness is. Noise to appreciate silence and absence to value presence." - Anon

"Don't think about what might go wrong. Think about what could go right." - Anon

"For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn't understand growth, it would look like complete destruction." ― Cynthia Occelli

"Life goes on... whether you choose to move on and take a chance in the unknown, or stay behind, locked in the past, thinking of what could have been." - Anon

"You can't stop the waves but you can learn to surf." ― Jon Kabat-Zinn

"Never let your past experiences harm your future. Your past can't be altered and your future doesn't deserve the punishment." - Anon

"Do not seek to change what has come before. Seek to create that which has not." - David Airey

"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." - Buddha

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out." - Robert Collier

"Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace." - Dalai Lama

"For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you life a life you're proud of, and if you find you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over again." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Never forget who was there for you when no one else was." - Anon

"Set free the negativity that doesn't belong to you and rid yourself of the negative people who only want to bring you down." - Anon

"The greatest prison people live in, is the fear of what other people think." ― David Icke

"Move on. It's just a chapter in the past. But don't close the book, just turn the page." ― Brooklyn Copeland

"I've always liked the time before dawn, because there's no one around to remind me who I'm supposed to be, so it's easier to remember who I am." - Brian Andreas.

"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decision." - Stephen Covey