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“I do not need to love you to prove that I love myself!!”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“My mother said I broke her heart...but it was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? It sells for so little, but it's all we have left in this place. It is the very last inch of us...but within that inch we are free.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
― Virginia Woolf

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“If there is one thing I can pass on from my humbling experiences in life, thus far, I will tell you this, the next time someone tells you "the absence of expectations is the absence of disappointment, do not listen. Have expectations. Keep them great. It'll be a very bumpy ride. You'll even get bruised, sometimes very badly. Sometimes, you'll come to an abrupt halt or even fall off your ride. But you'll grow. And if you do not grow, you do not live.”
― Pandora Poikilos

“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“The worst handicap you can have is a lack of belief in yourself!

Lani Deauville”
― Bette Lee Crosby, Life in the Land of "Is"...the amazing story of Lani Deauville, the world's longest living quadriplegic

“To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did. When God takes something from your grasp, He's not punishing you, but
merely opening your hands to receive something better. Concentrate on
this sentence... 'The will of God will never take you where the Grace of
God will not protect you.”
― José N. Harris, MI VIDA: A Story of Faith, Hope and Love

“Rewards await you if you stay steadfast in your faith.”
― Joel Osteen, It's Your Time: Activate Your Faith, Accomplish Your Dreams, and Increase in God's Favor

“Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“Sometimes the hardest part isn't letting go but rather learning to start over.”
― Nicole Sobon, Program 13

“So when you inhale and exhale, notice your breath and realize God is dwelling in your chest.”
― Trinka Polite, After the Sixth Day: Notes from a Spiritual Journey

“Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.”
― Maya Angelou, Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
― Audre Lorde

“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods