“At some point, I had no faith in faith anymore. I had no hope for this dunya (meaning “world”). I did not know how to.”— Huda Hassan, hazlitt.net
“Identify concrete tasks you can complete that will help you move forward. If a move is stressing you out, make it a point to go find your local grocery store or coffee shop. Think: here’s what I can do today to keep moving and keep going.”— Susan Bridges, thecut.com
“I’ve never been this vulnerable to myself. I feel like I graduated almost.”— Ariana Grande, thefader.com
“I think it’s rare that your life perfectly aligns with the daydream you doodled over and over.”— Amelia Diamond, manrepeller.com
“We must carry this in our hearts that what we have is special. That it can be taken from us and that when it is taken from us, we will be tested. We will be tested to our very souls. We will now all be tested. It is these times — it is this pain — that allows us to look inside ourselves.”— Peter Berg, Eric Taylor, Kyle Chandler, imdb.com
“Flying anxieties are mostly useless, but I could have used a healthy dose of caution before confidently stepping off those rocks and then stepping into nothing at all.”— Shannon Keating, tinyletter.com
“Make friends outside your bubble. The more you do, the more you will grow.”— Elsie Larson, abeautifulmess.com
“Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.”— Ally Condie, amazon.com
“Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond who you were.”— Jonathan Anthony Burkett, amazon.com
“The man who has learned the great truth that the method of God with his world is the method of evolution, of growth, of slow and steady advance, has also learned not to look with contempt upon the past.”— Minot Savage, archive.org
“You know, whenever anybody is faced with a precarious or negative or odd situation in their life, they say, ‘If I had only done this or that.’ But everything for its purpose, I say, because you can’t go back. Things just happen, and when good things happen you try to perpetuate that, and when bad th…”— Julia Roberts, ew.com
“I'm better for all the things that have happened to me, the good and the bad.”— Julia Roberts, ew.com
“Blooming from the wounds which we once bled. This is your alchemy. This is your truth.”— Sjana Elise Earp, instagram.com
“Accomplishing goals is not success. How much you expand in the process is.”— Brianna Wiest, shopcatalog.com
“Growth is seen thru trials and tribulations. You cant see how much you’ve grown til you’ve gone thru something.”— Lecrae, twitter.com
“"But there is another essential ingredient of success, and that ingredient is luck – absolute and total luck. When were you born? Who were your parents? Where did you grow up? None of us earned these things. They were given to us. When we strip away our luck and privilege and consider where we'd be…”— Melinda Gates, news.stanford.edu
“In order for the more substantial pieces of wood to catch fire, the kindling must burn first. In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com