The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

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"Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow, or a communicated sense of fineness."

- D. H. Lawrence

Awareness

"You’ve got to know yourself so you can at last be yourself."

- D. H. Lawrence

Self-awareness

"The only history is a mere question of one’s struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do."

- D. H. Lawrence

Personal Growth

"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself."

- D. H. Lawrence

Resilience

"The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up."

- D. H. Lawrence

Reflection

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"The greatest strength lies in vulnerability."

- Beauty and the Beast

Courage

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

Courage

"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."

- Tracee Ellis Ross

Courage

"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough."

- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Courage

"Courage, dear heart."

- C.S. Lewis

Courage