“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”— Maya Angelou, amazon.com
“You need the perspective to know that it’s not always going to be this bad. Shit gets better. Then it gets worse. But the fact that it gets better gives me a reason to keep trying.”— Adam Gnade, amazon.com
“If you’re not grappling with self-doubt half the time, you’ve probably lost perspective. The confident ones give us the worst and most lifeless bullshit.”— Adam Gnade, amazon.com
“I am learning to love the sound of my feet walking away from things not meant for me.”— Unknown, facebook.com
“Sometimes people hate you because of the way other people love you.”— Unknown, teenage-travesty.tumblr.com
“I can't stand moral absolutism. You know, there's always that guy who wants to point out that Martin Luther King cheated on his wife-- as if he obviously couldn't have been a great person if he did something like that. Or someone will bring out an inspirational quote, and get you to agree, and then…”— Anonymous, facebook.com
“It was happening. And just because it didn’t happen forever, doesn’t mean it wasn’t valuable.’”— Anonymous, facebook.com
“Accept yourself your physical condition and your fate as they are at the present moment.”— Morrie Schwartz, amazon.com
“It's natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don’t see ourselves as apart of nature. We think because we’re human we’re something above nature… We’re not.”— Morrie Schwartz, amazon.com
“Don't ignore the love you DO have in your life by focusing on the love you DON'T.”— Mandy Hale, amazon.com
“lately i’ve been replacing my ‘i’m sorry’s with ‘thank you’s, like instead of ‘sorry i’m late’ i’ll say ‘thanks for waiting for me’, or instead of ‘sorry for being such a mess’ i’ll say ‘thank you for loving me and caring about me unconditionally’ and it’s not only shifted the way i think and feel a…”— vijara, vijara.tumblr.com
“They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“Watching the news will always make you feel like the world is ending. The world isn’t ending. The world is changing.”— Adam Gnade, amazon.com
“I guarantee there is not one person you wouldn't love if you knew their true story.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“She is wearing rags and feathers From Salvation Army counters And the sun pours down like honey On our lady of the harbor And she shows you where to look Among the garbage and the flowers There are heroes in the seaweed There are children in the morning They are leaning out for love And they will le…”— Leonard Cohen, open.spotify.com
“One of the most powerful things about coping with loss is making commitments to ourselves about how we want to be in the world. We can say 'OK, this is the reality. We can’t choose our circumstances, but how can we best respond?'”— Marcia Lattanzi-Licht, huffingtonpost.com
“Think about being 20 years older than you are right now. Would you like it if you looked back and thought: ‘I wish I had been happier in my skin and appreciated the body I had 20 years ago’ or would you prefer to look back and think: ‘I had the best time on that beach at that party/on that date.’ Th…”— Jacqueline Hurst, madeleineshaw.com