“On nights when you feel like your mouth Is filled with scar tissue when your fists are heavier than your clay heart, remember the broken that does not need replacement remember the lungs that pound air in a body too tired to kiss the sun tell yourself you are still working on it say healing, say tak…”— Tammy Danan, thoughtcatalog.com
“Hold that white flag close to your heart And pluck the orange from the sun – it is setting Let it set on your palms Let your shaking bones beat like djembe drums Let your surrender fall to the ground So it can hold this tiny blue earth together. There is an ocean inside of you and Its waves come in…”— Tammy Danan, thoughtcatalog.com
“You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going.”— Geraldine Brooks, amazon.com
“All I am saying is that sometimes you're doing quite a lot by not doing anything. You're not quitting. You just keep going. That's the pioneer spirit.”— Rinker Buck, amazon.com
“I'm not going to wish for a perfect life. The things that knock you down in life are tests, forcing you to make a choice between giving in and remaining on the ground or wiping the dirt off and standing up even taller than you did before you were knocked down. I'm choosing to stand up taller. I'll p…”— Colleen Hoover, amazon.com
“How often do you think we write our own ending before the story is even finished? How often do we give up on ourselves when our lives are just starting? Things get hard and we immediately back away and assume that means we're going in the wrong direction, doing the wrong thing. If anything, when the…”— Rachel Van Dyken, amazon.com
“If I just keep putting one foot in front of the other, it stands to reason that I'm going to get there.”— Rachel Joyce, amazon.com
“If I get up just one less time than the number of times I’ve been knocked down, I have done one of the most devastating things possible; I have halted my life at that very spot.”— Craig D. Lounsbrough, amazon.com
“Even when you have gone as far as you can, and everything hurts, and you are staring at the specter of self-doubt, you can find a bit more strength deep inside you, if you look closely enough.”— Hal Higdon, thoughtcatalog.com
“Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic.”— Tim Noakes, thoughtcatalog.com
“We strike matches in the dark, we are saved, and this is a process; the process that we follow that annihilates all of the doubt.”— !Forward Russia!, open.spotify.com
“Please don’t let the coldness of the world harden your heart. Don’t allow your body to dance with the devil, to only see the bad instead of the good.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“Sometimes I feel like I could have saved him. I mean, I know I could have saved him.”— R.M Drake, amazon.com
“I need you believe in yourself the way I believe in you. I need you to find the beauty in everything and I need you to be who you once were.”— R.M Drake, amazon.com
“Outrun the people who quit when they feel discomfort, outrun the people who stop because of despair, outrun the people who are delayed because of prejudice, outrun the people who surrender to failure, and outrun the opponent who loses sight of the goal. Because if you want to win, the will can never…”— Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali,