“Happiness Is Not The Absence Of Problems, It’s The Ability To Deal With Them.”

“Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.”

— Virginia Woolf, Selected Diaries

“I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have… love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied”

— Anne Frank

Stéphane Mallarmé, from Collected Poems and Other Verse; “The Nurse and Herodias,” (x)

“I would open my heart and carry it in my hand so that others may know also; for there is no deeper desire than the desire of being revealed. We all want that little light in us to be taken from under the bushel.”

— Kahlil Gibran in his letter to Mary Elizabeth Haskell dated 11 Nov 1911, Beloved Prophet: The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran and Mary Haskell, and Her Private Journal 

“If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”

— Lemony Snicket

“You made flowers grow in my lungs and although they are beautiful, I can’t breathe.”

— Unknown

“Don’t touch me if you don’t mean it.”

— The War Boys (2009)

Rita Dove, from "Voiceover"

“Never be afraid to fall apart because it is an opportunity to rebuild yourself the way you wish you had been all along.”

— Rae Smith

“Behind every strong person lies a broken child who had to learn to stand up and take no shit.”

— lonerwolf