Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Quotes --Struggle, Strength, Adversity, Courage



What doesn't kill me only makes me stronger.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

May I be forever grateful that at times, I did not receive that which I truly deserved.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

I may be lying in the gutter, but I'm staring at the stars.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. -Friedrich Nietzsche

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful brave. -Rainer Maria Rilke

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

Let your joy scream across the pain.

Thorns and stings And those such things Just make stronger Our angel wings.

God gave burdens, also shoulders.

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. -Walt Whitman

Mine the darkness: see by the path you leave behind. -Andy Young

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. -Anais Nin

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -Anais Nin

I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? -Richard Bach

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly. -Richard Bach

Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. -Nietzsche

Leap and the net will appear.

Kites rise highest against the wind.

Dig as a root digs until you find the motive to grow. -Casey Haymes

"Come to the edge," he said. They said, "We are afraid." "Come to the edge," he said. They came. He pushed them and they flew. -Apollinaire