Healing
“These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.”
–Rumi, The Essential Rumi
“Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing.”
–Linda Hogan, Woman Who Watches Over the World
Acceptance
“My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.”
–Michael J. Fox
“We cannot change anything until we accept it.”
–Carl Jung
“Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.”
–Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
Perseverance
“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
–Saint Francis of Assisi
“The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. … Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.”
–Alyson Noel, Blue Moon
Strength
“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
–Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
–Eleanor Roosevelt
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
–Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
Encouragement
“… hope is precious, and you’re right not to give up.”
–C.J. Redwine, Defiance
“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.”
–Frederick Buechner, Beyond Words
“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
–Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
–Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
