… and all of the sudden, it’ll hit you out of nowhere that your heart doesn’t feel heavy anymore. you’re not waiting for the next thing to go wrong. sometimes you’re tired and sometimes you cry, but living doesn’t feel like a chore anymore.

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

Oh, my friend, it’s not what they take away from you that counts. It’s what you do with what you have left.

I don’t want to sit around and hope good things will happen. I want to make them happen. I want to be in control of my own destiny.

Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with hands shaking. Start with voice trembling but start. Start and don’t stop. Start where you are, with what you have. Just … start.

She is proud, she is struggling with herself; but kind, charming, generous.

Invest in the parts of your life that make it genuinely better & let the rest flow away.

“It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.”

If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.