roderickordonez’s most recent Quotables

A real girl isn't perfect; a perfect girl isn't real.

Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.

If you walk around with your nose in the air, you're going to end up flat on your face. But if you are content to simply be yourself, you will become more than yourself.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good that overwhelm the world.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone—that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

I'd rather f*** up a few things than get to the end of my life and go, ‘Very nice. Very tidy!’

There’s enough religion in the world for us to hate each other but not enough religion for us to love one another.

No one cares to know how much you know until they know how much you care.

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain.

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps. We must step up the stairs.

The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.

I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise.

When you’re brave enough to let go of anything you don’t absolutely love or need, what you have left is the space for stillness and possibility.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Fearless is not the absence of fear. (It is) living in spite of those things that scare you to death.