Rebecca K. Sampson

“It’s not always easy to find that bright side, and often you can’t see it until weeks
or months later, but there is always a bright side.”
― Rebecca K. Sampson, Stronger Now: How to Thrive in Any Circumstance and Become Unstoppable

“To live a full life is to live one without regrets.”
― Rebecca K. Sampson, Stronger Now: How to Thrive in Any Circumstance and Become Unstoppable

“The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“The Journey

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice --
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do --
determined to save
the only life you could save.”
― Mary Oliver

“Maybe, but she can’t help what she was born to eat. It’s just the way nature works. No one can help the card we’re dealt. Just like us, these birds and all the animals in this zoo and in those woods out there have to live and make do with what their bodies want as a food source. Maybe she despises eating carcasses, but she’s stuck with it. It’s eat or die.”
― Chrissy Peebles, Crush

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin