“Do thou smile like the rose at loss and gain; for the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, still smiles on, and it is never cast down.”
"We are born of love; love is our mother."
- Rumi
Love
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
- Rumi
Self-awareness
"This love is the rose that blooms forever."
- Rumi
Love
"For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, still smiles on, and it is never cast down."
- Rumi
Resilience
"A rose’s rarest essence lives in the thorn."
- Rumi
Resilience
"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