This is your life—not your parents', teachers' or significant other's. If you ever find yourself on a path that just doesn't feel safe anymore, you have every right to stop the car, get out—change your shoes and start walking.

—Jennifer Elisabeth

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I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I'm never going to be alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love.

—Jennifer Elisabeth in Born Ready

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I can feel my life changing and I'm not ready.

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I always say that from the moment you fall in love for the first time, a line is drawn in the sand and you're never the same girl again.

—Jennifer Elisabeth

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Starting over can be the scariest thing in the entire world, whether it's leaving a lover, a school, a team, a friend or anything else that feels like a core part of our identity but when your gut is telling you that something here isn't right or feels unsafe, I really want you to listen and trust in that voice.

—Jennifer Elisabeth

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Although many things may still need to happen before you identify what your exact work will be, I know that every single person whom you're meeting and every experience that you're having is necessary to you discovering your purpose. They are points on a map leading you to the moment where a match will finally be lit and you will be able to see through the darkness.

—Jennifer Elisabeth

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Believe me, I'd go back to the way things were in a minute if I could. But it's just not an option.

—Sarah Dessen in Lock & Key

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You have to choose the life you want. You have to take action and realize that you create your own destiny by making choices and sticking to them.

—Robin Bielman in Wild About Her Wingman

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Don't take my advice. Or anyone's advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it's your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Best of Me

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My mind's my kingdom.

—Francis Quarles

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

—Willem de Kooning

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History

18 Feb 2015 Added
26 Oct 2026 Wording changed

Previous wording

This is your life – not your parents', teachers' or significant other's. If you ever find yourself on a path that just doesn't feel safe anymore, you have every right to stop the car, get out – change your shoes and start walking.