“If we are thinking we cannot, we will not. If we are speaking of lack, limitation, and obstacles, we will find them at every turn.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“We can do this! Each of us has the power to do whatever it takes to make it through our challenges in life.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“Don’t be overwhelmed by all that’s in front of you - just take the next step, give your best to your now.”— Ryan Pernofski, twitter.com
“The point I'm making here is that as we grew the challenges grew with us. But we turned just about every situation into a learning opportunity.”— Chip Gaines, amazon.com
“I watched life and wanted to be a part of it but found it painfully difficult.”— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com
“When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.”— C. S. Lewis, goodreads.com
“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.com
“I can’t help it. It’s tearing me all up inside. I’m like that all through. I can’t help it.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“When you’re twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It’s only when you get to be twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you’ve been looking at the map upside down, and not until you’re forty are you entirely sure. By the time you’re sixty, take it from me, you’re…lost.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“It’s funny, isn’t it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”— Leo Tolstoy, amazon.com
“Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.”— Matthew J. Kirby, amazon.com
“We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it’s full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it worth living — the only thing that makes it possible to get up in the morning and go on living — is play. Art and play.”— Brian Sutton-Smith, nytimes.com
“After a long walk in hell, I found you. You made hell feel like home, you made the flames feel warm. It’s true, you haven’t saved me but you were the closest thing to heaven.”— Maram Rimawi, goodreads.com
“My favorite animal is the turtle. The reason is that in order for the turtle to move, it has to stick its neck out. There are going to be times in your life when you’re going to have to stick your neck out. There will be challenges and instead of hiding in a shell, you have to go out and meet them.”— Ruth Westheimers, graduationwisdom.com