I am stronger than I am broken.
-Roxane Gay

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

If I don't poke my head out of my shell and show people who I am, all anyone will ever think I am is my shell.

- Shonda Rimes

The sun persists in rising, so I make myself stand.
- Katniss, Catching Fire

I will be stronger than my sadness.
- Aysel, My Heart & Other Black Holes

Fighting has taught me not to give up, even if everything inside of me is telling me that I am not good enough. It’s taught me that when I hear that voice, to treat it like any other liar. Ignore it.
- Lauren Sugihara-Daniels

You never know what’s around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you’ve climbed a mountain.
- Tom Hiddleston

You can forget that other people carry pieces of your own story around in their heads. I’ve always thought—put together all those random pieces from everyone who’s ever known you - from your parents to the guy who once sat next to you on a bus, and you’d probably see a fuller version of your life than you even did while living it.
- Deb Caletti

All endings are beginnings. We just don't know it yet.
- Mitch Albom

With the moonlight to guide you
Feel the joy of being alive
The day that you stop running
Is the day that you arrive

And the night that you got locked in
Was the time to decide
Stop chasing shadows
Just enjoy the ride

- Morcheeba

She is clothed with strength and dignity,
and she laughs without fear of the future.
- Proverbs 31:25

Well, you build it up, you wreck it down
You burn your mansion to the ground
When there's nothing left to keep you here, when
You're falling behind in this
Big blue world
Oh you go to
Hold on, hold on
You got to hold on
Take my hand, I'm standing right here
You got to hold on

- Tom Waits

Be proud of your pain, for you are stronger than those with none.
- Lois Lowry

There’s something in your smile that gives me strength to carry on
And there something in your words that lingers even when you're gone.

- Tim McMorris, "Overwhelmed"

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.
- C. JoyBell C.

When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
- Paulo Coelho

In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.
- Octavia E. Butler