antoinette’s most recent Quotables

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

“The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough.”

Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.

But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.

I am thankful for all of those who said no to me. It's because of them I'm doing it myself.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them — a desire, a dream, a vision.

I’ve never seen a smiling face that wasn’t beautiful.

Believe that you can run farther or faster. Believe that you're young enough, old enough, strong enough, and so on to accomplish everything you want to do. Don't let worn-out beliefs stop you from moving beyond yourself.

If you run, you are a runner. It doesn't matter how fast or how far. It doesn't matter if today is your first day or if you've been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little.

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it.

The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on, it's wrong.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.

Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.

There are a million reasons why you can't. Focus on the few reasons why you can.

There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.