“You are so loved and we like having you around. There. Stay put, you. Tug if you need anything.”— Lin-Manuel Miranda, twitter.com
“Feel pain, grieve, be hurt and embrace it... but never give up hope. Things will be better. The world will be better.”— Cameron Kasky, twitter.com
“Fear can paralyze you. Or it can fuel you. Let it do the latter, my friends. Good luck and keep at it.”— Harlan Coben, twitter.com
“It is never nothing to be alive and on this planet and able to make words. It is never nothing to have survived pain, to have kept yourself going, to be this tough thing who is a miracle. I am saying this to you. I’ve had to say it to myself. You are something.”— Maria Dahvana Headley, twitter.com
“But you don’t know what you can do until you try it. And trying is the reason you’re here.”— Maria Dahvana Headley, twitter.com
“I apply to things all the time and I don’t always get them. Whenever I get a no, I apply to another, and off it goes. It’s not personal. It’s just that there are lots of people and the world is full of no. You don’t need every yes. You need one, and then the next.”— Maria Dahvana Headley, twitter.com
“This is just slow build and big ambition, and some luck. Not everyone gets everything they want. I don’t have everything I want. But when something goes right, even in the wrong direction, I try to celebrate that shit.”— Maria Dahvana Headley, twitter.com
“You can do it. You can be completely daunted and scared, and still, if you do the work to learn how to write, and do the work of writing, you can make stories people will read. You can change myths people think they’ve committed to memory. You can rock this place.”— Maria Dahvana Headley, twitter.com
“People will tell you things about the world, ways in which they think you might fail. Some of the things they tell you might be right. Failure can be survived. Keep making a list of your best version, and keep ticking items off. Keep learning. Write your world.”— Maria Dahvana Headley, twitter.com
“You can make yourself into the person you wish you were. It takes work and small steps and brave goals. Set those brave impossible goals. Tell yourself you are on the right path. Don’t die today. Live. Stay alive. Keep pushing yourself into your best case.”— Maria Dahvana Headley, twitter.com
“It is as hard to do small things as it is to do large ones. Do the most you can imagine. Doing the half version will only mean you’ll feel frustrated and keep scratching at the same projects.”— Maria Dahvana Headley, twitter.com
“When you get discouraged with the smaller picture, look to the larger. When you get discouraged with the larger picture, look to the smaller. Don’t quit. Just shift to a different ministry angle. In a culture yelling the bigger the better, I’m finding life again in looking small.”— Beth Moore, twitter.com
“It’s all gonna be alright someday. Till then we work, we love, we pray. But it’s all gonna be alright someday.”— Beth Moore, twitter.com
“If God was done with you, you wouldn't have woke up today. Fulfill your purpose.”— Lecrae, twitter.com