“You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.” – Bob Marley

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb

“Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.” – Joel Osteen

“A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” – J.K. Rowling

“The human capacity for burden is like bamboo — far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.” – Jodi Picoult

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” – Kahlil Gibran

“Happiness can exist only in acceptance.” – George Orwell

“When you can’t control what’s happening, challenge yourself to control the way you respond — that’s where your power is.” – Unknown

“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.” – Eckhart Tolle

“The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings.” – Kakuzo Okakura

“What we resist, persists. What we embrace, transforms.” – Carl Jung

“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller

“Even the darkest night will end, and the sun will rise.” – Victor Hugo

“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” – Desmond Tutu

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes it’s the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.” – Anonymous

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” – Haruki Murakami

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.” – Seneca

“Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.” – Zig Ziglar

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill

“Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, but learning to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene

“What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.” – Buddha

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” – Rumi

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.” – Nelson Mandela

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe

“The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford

“Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.” – Bruce Lee

“Faith is not the belief that everything will be okay, but the conviction that you can handle whatever comes.” – Unknown

“Growth is uncomfortable because you’ve never been here before.” – Unknown

“The only way that we can live is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change.” – C. JoyBell C.

“Sometimes you have to lose everything to find yourself.” – Unknown

“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” – C.S. Lewis

“Adversity introduces a man to himself.” – Albert Einstein

“The phoenix must burn to emerge.” – Janet Fitch

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu

“Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.” – Joyce Meyer

“Be patient with yourself. Nothing in nature blooms all year.” – Unknown

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” – Leo Tolstoy

“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” – Vincent van Gogh

“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.” – Hubert H. Humphrey

“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” – Aesop

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.” – Dalai Lama

“When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.” – Unknown

“Kindness begins with the understanding that we all struggle.” – Charles Glassman

“Peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.” – Pema Chödrön

“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.” – Charles Spurgeon

“The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.” – Paulo Coelho

“When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” – Lao Tzu

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

“Your life is a story of transition. You are always leaving one chapter behind while moving on to the next.” – Anonymous

“Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.” – Rikki Rogers

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman

“The darkest hour has only sixty minutes.” – Morris Mandel

“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” – Napoleon Hill

“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” – Buddha

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” – Corrie Ten Boom

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” – John Milton

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.” – Steve Maraboli