“They say Icarus was a fool for flying too close to the sun. I say it's only because of him we know how close we can get. I love the fall of those brave enough to fail for the right reasons. Fuck the easy glory of mere excellence. The only legacy I will accept is to know that however far I got — it w…”— Jared Singer & Anthony Ragle, youtube.comTagged: Spoken Word, Risk, Risk Taking, perseverance, Hard Work
“And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.comTagged: Tough Love, Overcoming Adversity, Change, Relationships
“Three things: 1- Stop letting pride win. Don't let it destroy and unravel friendships and loves. We blinked, and it's the holidays again. How many more laps around the sun are left? Life is slippery and fleeting, and distance so cold. Stay humble and warm. Remember what counts. 2- Be unapologeticall…”— Victoria Erickson, facebook.comTagged: Soft, Softness, Pride, Emotional, Sensitive
“Will I be able to continue? I don’t know. But I’m betting on myself that I WILL.”— Morrie Schwartz, amazon.comTagged: Resilience, perseverance, strength
“He still stands in spite of what his scars say.”— Amy Winehouse, azlyrics.comTagged: Lyrics, perseverance, Survival, strength
“It was happening. And just because it didn’t happen forever, doesn’t mean it wasn’t valuable.’”— Anonymous, facebook.comTagged: Break Up, Perspective, Failure, Inspirational
“I could be healed by the sheer courage of continuing to live. I could heal myself.”— Anaïs Nin, amazon.comTagged: perseverance, Inspirational, Healing, Life, Survival
“becoming dragonfish to survive the horrors we are living with tortured lungs adapting to breathe blood.”— Audre Lorde, amazon.comTagged: perseverance, Trauma, Poetry
“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being…”— Voltaire, amazon.comTagged: Depression, Life, Tired, perseverance
“Sometimes I'm the mess. Sometimes I'm the broom. On the hardest days, I have to be both.”— Rudy Francisco, twitter.comTagged: Poetry, Resilience, strength, Inspirational
“I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.comTagged: Resilience, Literature, Life, Learning Experience
“Fuck security. Give us the mess. Give us the big splash of life and color and failure. It’s beautiful.”— Adam Gnade, amazon.comTagged: Security, Risk, Failure, Life, danger
“Sometimes that bad/ evil part of yourself, the destructive messed-up part, wants you to stay where it’s safe and never get what you really want. But the best part of yourself is the one that says, ‘Please, please do this. You only live once, and I’m sick of this situation!”— The Wing Girls, amazon.comTagged: The Friend Zone, Risk, Loss, Rejection
“Bravery was doing something dangerous without thinking. Courage was walking into danger, knowing full well the risks.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.comTagged: Brave, Risk, Relationships, Fear, chances
“Youth, with all its accompanying risks, humiliations, and uncertainties, the pressure to do it all before it’s too late.”— Lena Dunham, amazon.comTagged: Youth, Risk, Embarrassment, Life
“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.’”— Harriet Beecher Stowe, mentalhealthdaily.comTagged: Don't Give Up, Waiting For The Tide To Turn, perseverance, Holding On
“And here you are living despite it all.”— Rupi Kaur, twitter.comTagged: Inspirational, Life, perseverance, strength, Moving Forward