“What makes Heroic? To face simultaneously one’s greatest suffering and one’s highest hope.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“Be smart, be strong, be proud, live honorably and with dignity and just hold on.”— James Frey, amazon.com
“We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it’s full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it worth living — the only thing that makes it possible to get up in the morning and go on living — is play. Art and play.”— Brian Sutton-Smith, nytimes.com
“Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run... but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant...”— Hunter S. Thompson, amazon.com
“The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.”— Marjorie Pay Hinckley, lds.org
“Everyone is always going through tough things, the irony in it is that everyone thinks what they’re going through is just as hard as what you are. Life isn’t about surviving this, it’s about understanding this.”— Nicholas Sparks, goodreads.com
“Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and it’s spectacular.”— Joseph Campbell, billmoyers.com
“The most important thing you ever did was learn how to survive. Don’t let anyone make you feel like you shouldn’t have.”— Alexandra Bracken, amazon.com
“You made it another day. And you can make it one more. You’re doing just fine. You’re doing fine.”— Charlotte Eriksson, amazon.com
“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
“Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.”— Lois McMaster Bujold, amazon.com
“Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.”— Darren Shan, amazon.com
“When you’re being honest, you can never completely murder your life. Lies kill but telling the truth, well, you might just survive.”— Ryan O'Connell, mylivejournalsucks.tumblr.com
“It's good to be young, but let's not kid ourselves, It's better to pass on through those years And come out the other side with our hearts still beating, Having stared down demons and come back breathing.”— The Mountain Goats, youtu.be
“If I just keep putting one foot in front of the other, it stands to reason that I'm going to get there.”— Rachel Joyce, amazon.com
“Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds…”— Andrew Solomon, amazon.com