“You cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair.”

“You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.”

Sharon Creech Walk Two Moons

“Stop beating your head, you might hurt yourself.”

Paul DiLascia (1959–2008) American software developer

“When you grow to become visible in the world / and build a nest / above your head / there are times when you fly up there / and it is light and swims in the air”

Mirkka Rekola (1931–2014) Finnish writer

“Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

“Don’t waste another day of your life grieving over something that you cannot do anything about. Let God give you a new beginning. Your mistakes are not enough to stop God if you don’t let them.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

“You can look out of your life like a train & see what you're heading for, but you can't stop the train.”

Philip Larkin (1922–1985) English poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian

“you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead.”

Elizabeth Gilbert (1969) American writer

“People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.”

Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary

“The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.”

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist