You wanna fly, you got to give up that shit that weighs you down. -Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison

I truly respect the people who stay strong even when they have every right to break down

When it all seems like am uphill struggle just visualize the view from the top.

Just because today is a terrible day, doesn't mean tomorrow won't be the best day of your life. You just have to get there.

Romans 12:12
"Let your hope make you glad. Be patient in time of trouble, & never stop praying."

"The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours- it is an amazing journey- and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins." -Bob Moawad

Direction is so much more important than speed. Many are going nowhere fast.

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." -Eleanor Roosevelt

"Study me as much as you like, you will never know me. For I differ a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes, and see me as I see myself. Because I have chosen to dwell in a place you can't see" -Rumi

I Am Enough

I am full of sparkle and compassion, I genuinely want to make the world a better place. I love hard. I practice kindness. I'm not afraid of the truth. I am loyal, adventurous, supportive and surprising. I am a women, I am enough. I make mistakes, but I own them and learn from them. Sometimes I make a lot of mistakes. -Molly Mahar

"One night when you were just a star, someone hung every hope, every wish, every dream, they ever had from your limbs, so if you ever feel inferior, ever start to doubt your beauty or brilliance just remember: you have constellations lining the cathedral walls of your chest, a moon for a heart and the sunlight pouring through your skin, you are a symphony of stardust and you were born to shine."
-Tyler Kent White

"If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy.  Even if you wind up being left out." -The Perks of Being a Wallflower

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view- until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." -To Kill A Mockingbird

"I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and that is the beginning of everything." -F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Oh, I'm grand." Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth.  "I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend." -John Green

"Thomas Edison's last words were 'It's very beautiful over there'. I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful." -John Green

"You're mad. Bonkers. Off your head... But I'll tell you a secret... All of the best people are." -Alice in Wonderland

"Most of all, I'm scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the rest of my whole life the way I feel when I'm with you." -Baby, Dirty Dancing

"So come with me, where dreams are born. and this time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!"-J.M Barrie, From the book Peter Pan

"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." -Maya Angelou

"So this is my life.  And i want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be." -The Perks of Being a Wallflower

"All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost: the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring, renewed shall be blade that was broken this crown less again shall be king. -J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of The Flies

"And i thought about how many people have loved these songs.  And how many people got through a lot of bad times with those songs.  And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs.  And how much those songs really mean.  I think it would be great to have written one of those songs.  I bet it I wrote one of them, I would be very proud.  I hope the people who wrote those songs are happy.  I hope that they feel it's enough.  I really do because they've made me happy.  And I'm only one person." -Perks of Being a Wallflower

"Don't trust anyone that says you can't do it.  Show them you can." -Rapunzel

"I admit, I was afraid to love. Not just love, but to love her. For she was a stunning mystery. She carried things deep inside her that no one has yet to understand, and I, I was afraid to fail, like the others. She was the ocean and I was just a boy who loved the waves but was completely terrified to swim." -Christopher Poindexter

"The strongest actions for a women is to love herself, be herself and shine amongst those who never believed she could." -Author Unknown

My scars tell a story.
They are a reminder of times
when life tried to break me,
but failed.
They are markings of where the
structure of my character was welded.
- Steve Maraboli

It's almost midnight,
and I'm still waiting
for your reply,
because I'd rather talk to you,
than do anything else.
But as the day comes to an end,
I realize that I'm wasting my time,
because you haven't replied for hours,
and it shows in your eyes,
that you'd rather talk to someone,
that's not me.
- d.j

There is freedom waiting for you, 

On the breezes of the sky, 

And you ask "What if I fall?"

Oh but my darling, 

What if you fly?

- e.h

The Voice

There is a voice inside of you

That whispers all day long, 

"I feel that this right for me,

I know that this is wrong."

No teacher, preacher, parent, friend

Or wise man can decide

What's right for you-- just listen to

The voice that speaks inside.

"The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.  Like, I will probably never be struck by lightening, or win a Nobel Prize, or become the dictator of a small nation in the Pacific Islands, or contract terminal ear cancer, or spontaneously combust.  But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will happen to each of us.  I could have seen it rain frogs.  I could have stepped foot on Mars.  I could been eaten by a whale.  I could have married the Queen of England or survived months at sea.  But my miracle was different.  My miracle was this: out of all of the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman." -John Green, Paper Towns

"Here's one of the things I learned from that morning: if you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning.  It's like that old riddle about a tree falling in a forest, and whether it makes a sound if there's no one around to hear it.  You keep drawing a line farther and farther away, crossing it every time.  That's how people end up stepping off the edge of the earth. You'd be surprised at how easy it is to bust out of orbit, to spin out to a place where no one can touch you.  To lose yourself-- to get lost.  Or maybe you wouldn't be surprised.  Maybe some of you already know.  To those people, I can only say; I'm sorry."  -Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

"There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1.  There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others.  Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. some infinities are bigger than other infinities.  A writer we used to like taught us that.  There are days, many of them, when i resent the size of my unbound set.  I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, i want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got.  But Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity.  I wouldn't trade it for the world.  You gave me a forever within the numbered days. and I'm grateful." -John Green, The Fault in Our Stars