“If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it - to love it. Some endure it through drowning it in sorrow, or by making themselves forget. Others turn it into anger.”— Sarah J. Maas, amazon.com
“You can spend your life wallowing in despair, wondering why you were the one who was led towards the road strewn with pain, or you can be grateful that you are strong enough to survive it.”— J.D. Stroube, amazon.com
“I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty.”— Harlan Ellison, amazon.com
“So the world readies once more to try to break your spine and it feels like you are losing the same war with yourself over and over again. Stand tall, stay hunched, or crawl – it matters not as long as you reach each season’s end. Your dragon heart knows better than to fall prey to a sunless sky.”— Sade Andria Zabala, thoughtcatalog.com
“Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.com
“Scars are the paler pain of survival received unwillingly and displayed in the language of injury.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.com
“we live in a world that constantly shames us for the ways we have come to survive, for our coping strategies, for the ways we have been bruised.”— Alok Vaid Menon, facebook.com
“Every morning the sun rises and you, like the plants covered in dew in your garden get a chance to start again.”— Nikita Gill, yoursoulisariver.com
“You don't have to prove to anyone just how tough you are. You are still here, and you are still alive despite all of life's storms and tornados and hurricanes. You have weathered them all like a grand old oak tree, and you are still here.You are still alive. And if that isn't tough, I don't know wha…”— Nikita Gill, shopcatalog.com
“The earth has never stopped moving, growing, evolving for anyone and neither should you.”— Nikita Gill, shopcatalog.com
“And first, before him and before her and before them there was you. Never forget that.”— Nikita Gill, yoursoulisariver.com
“Be easy on your soul, it needs softness, it needs time, it needs patience.”— Nikita Gill, shopcatalog.com
“You owe no one an explanation, a reason, a defence for who you become after you survive.”— Nikita Gill, yoursoulisariver.com
“There are things in this world that no human being should be able to endure. We should die of heartbreak, but we do not. Instead, we are forced to survive, to bear witness.”— Noah Hawley, amazon.com
“The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.”— Anne Brontë, amazon.com
“ain’t we all just trying to be some type of sanctuary for someone? for every year we are not destroyed do they not remind us what a miracle it is to have lasted this long?”— Clint Smith, beltwaypoetry.com
“I have spent my whole life scared, frightened of things that could happen, might happen, might not happen, fifty years I spent like that. Finding myself awake at three in the morning. But you know what? Ever since my diagnosis, I sleep just fine. What I came to realize is that fear, that’s the worst…”— Peter Gould, Walter White, Bryan Cranston, amazon.com
“There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater. But sometime…”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com