"The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world"

This week's Monday Motivation is a little different. I wanted to share with you a small collection of my favourite quotes; the ones I find the most inspiring / the ones I feel will help you get through the next week.

I have a quote book, where for years I have been adding sentences, paragraphs, entire poems by writers and historians and public speakers. I love reading through it and feeling motivated, connected and empowered.

Here are my hand-picked favourites from the collection:

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but yourself. – Virginia Woolf

Don’t follow your dreams; chase them. – Richard Dumb

The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. – Lemony Snicket

Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy. – Cynthia Nelms

If you are going through hell, keep going. – Winston Churchill

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. – Henry David Thoreau

I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question. – Harun Yahya

Discovery exists not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes.  – Marcel Proust

It is neither good or bad, but thinking makes it so. – William Shakespeare

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. – Albert Einstein

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. – Louisa May Alcott

What lie behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Have a great week.