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“Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.”

— Steve Maraboli

“When somebody doubts your abilities you have two choices. You can hang your head down low and believe them; or hold your head up high and believe in yourself.”

— William Chapman 

“If we’re going to talk, then let’s talk. Forget about what is polite or proper and delve right into what is sincere and honest. Lead me down through the labyrinth of your true, spectacular self. I am not interested in pleasantries. If you want a conversation, then let’s get lost.”

— Beau Taplin 

“You can play it safe, and I wouldn’t blame you for it. You can continue as you’ve been doing, and you’ll survive, but is that what you want? Is that enough?”

— J.M. Darhower 

“It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.”

— Jim Morrison 

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”

— Neil Gaiman 

“I am practicing being kind instead of right.”

— Matthew Quick 

“The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn’t exist at all. Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so.”

— Siegfried Sassoon 

“There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer 

“Just keep moving forward and don’t give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.”

— Johnny Depp 

“I was quiet, but I was not blind.”

— Jane Austen

“I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer 

“But I tried, didn’t I? Goddamnit, at least I did that.”

— Ken Kesey 

“You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.”

— Ernest Hemingway 

“Your body is the house you grew up in. How dare you try to burn it to the ground.”

— Sierra Demulder 

“It doesn’t matter if it’s a relationship, a lifestyle, or a job. If it doesn’t make you happy let it go.”

— William Chapman 

“Close your eyes and imagine the best version of you possible. That’s who you really are, let go of any part of you that doesn’t believe it.”

— C. Assaad 

“It’s unbelievable how you can affect someone else so deeply and never know.”

— Susane Colasanti 

“Loving me isn’t easy, I have sharp edges, I have missing parts.”

— Donte Colins 

“Scar tissue has no character. It’s not like skin. It doesn’t show age or illness or pallor or tan. It has no pores, no hair, no wrinkles. It’s like a slip cover. It shields and disguises what’s beneath. That’s why we grow it; we have something to hide.”

— Susanna Kaysen 

“Everybody said, ‘Follow your heart.’ I did, it got broken.”

— Agatha Christie 

“But all the magic I have known I’ve had to make myself.”

— Shel Silverstein 

“Just because you don’t say much doesn’t mean people don’t notice you. It’s actually the quiet ones who often draw the most attention. There’s this constant whirlwind of motion and sound all around, and then there’s the quiet one, the eye of the storm.”

— Amy Efaw

“Please do not mistake sensitivity for weakness.”

— Anaïs Nin 

“We assume that others show their love in the same way that we do and if they don’t follow that equation, we worry that the love is not there.”

— Amy Przeworski

“You’ll get through this. And I know it’s impossible to believe right now, but it gets better. Trust me.”

— Susane Colasanti 

“Take out time for YOU. You help everyone else, but you forget to help yourself. You need YOU too!”

— Tony Gaskins 

“If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.”

— C.S. Lewis 

“It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.”

— Nicholas Sparks 

“It’s not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.”

— E.M. Forster