Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on.

 

Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. 

“Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.”

― Steve Maraboli

 

“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”

― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

 

“If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.

 

Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.”

― Stephen Fry

 

“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”

― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

 

“One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.”

― A.A. Milne

 

“Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

 

“The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”

― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

 

“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym

 

“To shine your brightest light is to be who you truly are.”

― Roy T. Bennett

 

“Sometimes you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are.”

― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

 

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”

― Elie Wiesel

 

“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.

I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.”

― jonathan safran foer

 

“Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.”

― Roy T. Bennett

 

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”

― Søren Kierkegaard , The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin

 

“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”

― Albert Schweitzer

 

“People come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past.”

― Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue

 

“The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.”

― Peter Shaffer, Five Finger Exercise

 

“please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.”

― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

 

“I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.”

― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever