“Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was ever enough.”
"You are both the source of my happiness and the one I want to share it with."
- David Levithan
Love
"I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten. It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF."
- David Levithan
Self-awareness
"My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away."
- David Levithan
Happiness
"Music is everywhere. It's in the air between us, waiting to be sung."
- David Levithan
Inspiration
"There are these moments you think you won’t survive. And then you survive."
- David Levithan
Resilience
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity