“Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.”
"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."
- Sarah Dessen
Love
"I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed."
- Sarah Dessen
Love
"No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, compromise, and give something up to gain something greater."
- Sarah Dessen
Love
"“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”"
- Sarah Dessen
Love
"Home wasn't a set house or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together."
- Sarah Dessen
Love
"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