“Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway.”— Meg Cabot, amazon.com
“After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“I know how it feels to be in a fistfight with yourself, with your memories, with your trauma, with your pain.”— Fortesa Latifi, madgirlf.tumblr.com
“One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.”— Shannon Alder, facebook.com
“Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others-- it only changes yours.”— Shannon Alder, amazon.com
“Anger I believe is a wasted emotion. Because under the surface of that emotion is really pain, disappointment, confusion. People would rather curse you off then admit you hurt them. But what I realized is if you want the last word and if you want it to matter, 'Fuck you' doesn't do that. Don't allow…”— Kirsten Corley, facebook.com
“I'm a firm believer in giving second chances. I think everyone has the potential to be better than they were. But you also have to take into consideration, the risk factor. That thought will always be in the back of your mind, 'will they hurt me again?' Although, I think sometimes people come back b…”— Kirsten Corley, facebook.com
“It almost seems like the best people in the world endure the hardest things sometimes doesn't it. But that's the reason those people are so beautiful. I promise your life will get better. And years down the road you'll look back at this and be happy you chose not to end your life. The world needs yo…”— Kirsten Corley, facebook.com
“I know I'm not the only one Who regrets the things they've done Sometimes I just feel it's only me Who can't stand the reflection that they see”— Adele, youtube.com
“Humans are obsessed with pain. We fall in love, we prolong our own depressions, and we ask to be let down by having hopes and expectations.”— Soft Grung, twitter.com
“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.”— The Little Prince, amazon.com
“Happiness is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Maury Noble, amazon.com
“Thinking that we can find some lasting pleasure and avoid pain is what in Buddhism is called samsara, a hopeless cycle that goes round and round endlessly and causes us to suffer greatly.”— Pema Chodron, amazon.com
“Happiness comes in many forms. In the company of good friends, in the feeling you get when you make someone else’s dreams come true,or in a promise of hope renewed. It’s ok to let yourself be happy, because you never know how great that happiness might be. Sometimes pain becomes such a huge part of…”— Lucas Scott, amazon.com
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”— Mother Teresa, catholic.org
“We can never learn to be brave or patient, if there were only joy in the world.”— Helen Keller, amazon.com