“Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits.”— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com
“My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“You’re important. You deserve to speak up and have people shut the hell up and listen to you.”— Alexandra Bracken, amazon.com
“Don’t wish me happiness — I don’t expect to be happy all the time; it’s gotten beyond that somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor — I will need them all.”— Anne Morrow Lindbergh, amazon.com
“The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.”— Nikos Kazantzakis, goodreads.com
“Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery.”— Andrea Gibson, ohandreagibson.tumblr.com
“Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.”— C. Joybell C., goodreads.com
“I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?”— Laurie Halse Anderson, amazon.com
“I’ve decided to make myself strong. As far as I can tell, that’s all I can do.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com