“The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I’m not going to let myself pull me down anymore.”— C. Joybell C., goodreads.com
“If you’re not tough it’s hard to survive in this world; and if you’re not kind then you don’t deserve to survive.”— Raymond Chandler, quotemadness.com
“Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don’t think you can, hold on.”— James Frey, amazon.com
“Being brave doesn’t mean you aren’t scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com
“To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.”— Criss Jami, goodreads.com
“What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.”— Sharon Creech, amazon.com
“I keep trying to force myself to speak of the things that remain mute inside.”— Anne Sexton, amazon.com
“Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.”— Ann Landers, amazon.com
“If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.”— Nora Roberts, amazon.com
“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”— August Wilson, goodreads.com
“I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.”— August Strindberg, amazon.com