“Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” ~ Mark Twain
“Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.” ~ Jonathan Kozol
“You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.” ~ Jim Rohn
“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.” ~ Helen Keller
“The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.” ~ Helen Keller
“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.” ~ Helen Keller
“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” ~ Helen Keller
“All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.” ~ Helen Keller
“The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.” ~ E.V. Lucas
“They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” ~ Andy Warhol
“There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” ~ Carl Gustav Jung
“I ask not for a lighter burden but for broader shoulders.” ~ Proverb
“When I hear somebody sigh that life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?'” ~ Sydney J. Harris
“The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.” ~ Max Lerner
“Nothing external to you has any power over you.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The person who can dominate during rough times is the person who can dominate, period.” ~ Gary Vaynerchuk
“Without pain and suffering, we would be nothing” ~ Tyler Durden (Fight Club)
