For Every One Quotes

“Dreams don't have timelines, deadlines, and aren't always in straight lines.”
― Jason Reynolds, For Every One

“Your dream is the mole
behind your ear,
that chip in your
front tooth,
your freckles.
It's the thing that makes
you special,
but not the thing that makes
you great.
The courage in trying,
the passion in living,
and the acknowledgement
and appreciation of
the beauty happening around
you does that.”
― Jason Reynolds, For Every One

“One thing I am now certain of
is that this road less traveled has
in fact
been traveled by far more suckers
than you think.

All of us out here,
slumped over wearing
weird fake
broken smiles,
trying to avoid the truth:
That we all have road rage.”
― Jason Reynolds, For Every One

“At sixteen
I though
Iwould've made it
by now.

Now
I'm making up
what making it
means
as i go.”
― Jason Reynolds, For Every One

“our dreams could be as far away as forever or as close as lunchtime.”
― Jason Reynolds, For Every One

“Maybe you're eighteen
and plan to make your first million
by twenty-five
(it's not impossible).
Or maybe you're eighteen
and plan to make it to twenty-one
(it's not impossible, nor is
twenty-two twenty-three twenty-four).”
― Jason Reynolds, For Every One

“Because if it did- if it disappeared, if the voices vanished and you were no longer overtaken by the taunts of your own potential, no longer blinded by a perfect vision of your purpose, no longer engorged with passion- what would happen?”
― Jason Reynolds, For Every One

“When it comes to
my dream,
the way I like to describe it
is that
it's a rabid beast
that found me when I
was young”
― Jason Reynolds, For Every One

“It all just depends.
Some say on skill.
Some say on will.
Some say on luck.
Some say on buck.
Some say on race.
Some say on face.
Some say on Sunday

God got a mighty,
might plan.

Nobody really knows
what i depends on,
but everybody knows
it depends.”
― Jason Reynolds, For Every One

“From a man doing it
the only way
he knows how,
splitting his cries
and his smiles
right down the middle,
swallowing his moonshine mistakes
while in the sunlight his sweat
irrigates his life and that life he-
like you -
has been tilling,
hoping there's a
harvest coming.”
― Jason Reynolds, For Every One

“Though the struggle
is always made to
sound admirable
and poetic,
the thumping uncertainty
is still there.

sure,
I know my dream
is as real
as my hands

but I grip tight
a short leash
with insecurity
tied to the end

waggling along
beside me.”
― Jason Reynolds, For Every One

“Maybe you are a dancer
moving to the sound of your own future;
or a musician
banging strumming bowing plucking
blowing into,
creating soundtracks
for dream trains chugging along
through thick night;
or a painter
spilling and splattering confessions
across the face of stretched canvas;
or an actor
praying at the altar
of your alter ego;
or a photographer,
finger on the button
like a quick-draw cowboy,
shooting
not to kill anyone
but to preserve forever;
or maybe even
a writer
for some strange reason,
writing expert books,
pages of good intention
and rah-rah and fantasy
and sometimes truth,
or maybe even letters to people
you don't know but
do know you love.”
― Jason Reynolds, For Every One

“The truth is,
finding that beast may
or may not happen.
But the treasures I've discovered
under the heavy stones
and behind the massive trees
and deep in the dark caves
have created the hunter
and the human
that I am.”
― Jason Reynolds, For Every One

“Your dream is the mole behind your ear, that chip in your front tooth, your freckles.
It's the thing that makes you special, but not the thing that makes you great.

The courage in trying, the passion in living, and the acknowledgement and appreciation of the beauty happening around you does that.”
― Jason Reynolds, For Every One

“For those who bear the cross - the two perpendicular planks fo passion - who find life is best when nailed to it.”
― Jason Reynolds, For Every One

“Your dream is the mole
behind your ear,
that chip in your
front tooth,
your freckles.

It's the thing that makes
you special,
but not the thing that makes
you great.

The courage in trying,
the passion in living,
and the acknowledgement
and appreciation of
the beauty happening around you does that.

Dreamer,

I am not fit to say much more,
because I don't know much more than that.
If you do,
please write back.
If not,
please accept this
as just a few words
of encouragement.
And if this letter means nothing to you,
if it's just more pointless weight
added to an already heavy life,
feel free to burn it
and use it for firelight
for this
long and often dark
road.

But if you somehow find truth,
comfort,
or anything at all
within this ramble,
keep it close

and use it for firelight
for this
long and often dark
road.”
― Jason Reynolds, For Every One

“if the voices vanished and you were no longer overtaken by the taunts of your own potential, no longer blinded by a perfect vision of your purpose, no longer engorged with passion- what would happen?”
― Jason Reynolds, For Every One

“THIS LETTER
IS FOR US ALL, to remind us that we are many. That we are right for trying. That purpose is real. That making it is possible.”
― Jason Reynolds, For Every One

“It whispers to me
that I don’t have wings
that I don’t have a shot
that I don’t have a clue
but to me,

I don’t have a choice,
so I jump
anyway.”
― Jason Reynolds, For Every One