“Strong women accept apologies but know when to stop accepting them and walk away.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com
“Nobody looks good in their darkest hours. But it’s those hours that make us what we are. We stand strong, or we cower. We emerge victorious, tempered by our trails, or fracture by a permanent, damning fault line.”— Karen Marie Moning, amazon.com
“Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.”— Washington Irving, goodreads.com
“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”— Adrienne Rich, amazon.com
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.”— Washington Irving, goodreads.com
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”— Martin Luther King Jr., goodreads.com
“You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.”— Audre Lorde, amazon.com
“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“No matter how strong you are, no matter how smart you are or tough you can be, the world will find a way to break you. And when it does, the only thing you can do is hold on.”— Taylor Jenkins Reid, amazon.com
“Stay strong darling, you are worth more than the heartache you’re feeling right now.”— Harriet Xaviera Madrideo, thoughtcatalog.com
“Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.”— Lawrence G. Lovasik, amazon.com
“It’s the hard days — the days that challenge you to your very core — that determine who you are. You will be defined not just by what you achieve, but how you survive.”— Sheryl Sandberg, news.berkeley.edu
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”— Khalil Gibran, imdb.com
“In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.”— Francis Bacon, amazon.com