“When nobody else celebrates you, learn to celebrate yourself. When nobody else compliments you, then compliment yourself. It’s not up to other people to keep you encouraged. It’s up to you. Encouragement should come from the inside.”— Joel Osteen, onlinecounsellingcollege.tumblr.com
“Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.”— Harriet Beecher Stowe, amazon.com
“When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide 'll turn.”— Harriet Beecher Stowe, amazon.com
“We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.”— Robert Jordan, amazon.com
“We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of the thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder.”— Robert Jordan, amazon.com
“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.”— Robert Jordan, amazon.com
“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”— George R. R. Martin, amazon.com
“Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds could make it flicker because it would not give up.”— Laura Ingalls Wilder, amazon.com
“It takes ten times as long to put yourself together as it does to fall apart.”— Suzanne Collins, amazon.com
“I am thankful for my struggle because without it, I wouldn’t have stumbled upon my strength.”— ALEXANDRA ELLE, goodreads.com
“You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise.”— Maya Angelou, amazon.com
“Loving someone who cannot love you the same way in return is not weakness. It’s one of the most courageous things you’ll ever do. You are putting your armour at their feet and you are saying ‘I will not fight you in this. I have loved you and that means that I have already won.”— Azra Tabassum, 5000letters.tumblr.com
“I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It’s so… heroic.”— George Carlin, amazon.com
“On your face there is something like the promise of a storm: one day passion will burn it to the bone.”— Jean-Paul Sartre, amazon.com
“When you have fought so hard to get back on your feet, don’t ever go back to the people who knocked you down.”— Steven Aitchison, simplereminders.com
“I hope that I’m always struggling, really. You develop when you’re struggling. When you’re struggling, you get stronger.”— Andrew Garfield, mtv.com
“Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes after. Such moments are tests of courage, of strength.”— Sabaa Tahir, amazon.com