“They say that God never gives you a burden you can't bear, and maybe that's true, but I know that there have been plenty of days when I have not been able to see my way forward, days where I have thought, I cannot lift my head and go on. But I know that it has always been better for me to pick up th…”— Vivian Stringer, 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
“Most of us are so enthralled with the scary tigers in our minds—our stories about loneliness, rejection, grief, worthlessness—that we don’t realize they are in the past. They can’t hurt us anymore. We are protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened. It’s possible to come back. To see…”— Geneen Roth, amazon.com
“Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“The energy of hatred won't get you anywhere; but the energy of forgiveness, which reveals itself through love, will transform your life in a positive way.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“He’s a beautiful person. He always tells me: ‘We’ve got to find a way to win by losing.’ In the eyes of society, we’ve lost already. Everyone in here is a loser. We can either be angry about it, or we can keep trying to grow.”— Anonymous, humansofnewyork.com
“There comes a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go.”— Tennessee Williams, goodreads.com
“You will either step forward into growth or you will step backward into safety.”— Abraham Maslow, brainyquote.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, goodreads.com