“It’s so devastating to come to terms with speaking of someone in past tense when you used to see them as your present and your future.”
"Hard things will happen to us. We will recover. We will learn from it. We will grow more resilient because of it."
- Taylor Swift
Resilience
""Life can be heavy if you carry it all at once. Know what to keep and what to release. Decide what is yours to hold, and let all the other things go.""
- Taylor Swift
Balance
""No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.""
- Taylor Swift
Compassion
""You will screw it up sometimes.""
- Taylor Swift
Failure
"Isn't it just so pretty to think all along there was some invisible string tying you to me?"
- Taylor Swift
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