Words to live by

God puts people into our lives for a reason, but not all of them are meant to stay.
-taken from A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown

Pain is temporary, quitting is forever.
-taken from It's Not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong

Face Everything And Recover

If you want something to happen, go out and make it happen.

Having control is not being happy. (still trying to accept this one)

I can do anything I want to do; I just have to let myself go. (see above)

You should seek to be loved as much as you should just love.
-St. Francis

Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along.
-Speech to the Young, Speech to the Progress-Toward by Gwendolyn Brooks

It's the fire in my eyes, the flash of my teeth, the swing in my waist, and the joy in my feet. I'm a woman, Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, that's me.
-Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou

Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness.
-A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle