We are put in situations to build our character... not destroy us.

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Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.

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Not having the best situation, but seeing the best in your situation is the key to happiness. — Marie Forleo

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You know, people ask me. They say 'Dan, three years later do you really want to be drawing cat whiskers on your face?' but they don't understand. The cat whiskers, they come from within. ― Dan Howell

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Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself. Believe in yourself, your abilities and your own potential. Never let self-doubt hold you captive. You are worthy of all that you dream of and hope for. ― Roy T. Bennett

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God put us here, on this carnival ride. We close our eyes never knowing where it'll take us next. ― Carrie Underwood

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Whether we're prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us.

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You stay safe, You love. You survive. You laugh and cry and struggle and sometimes you fail and sometimes you succeed. You Push. ― Carrie Ryan

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Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it. ― Boris Pasternak

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War had bled color from everything, leaving nothing but a storm of gray. ― Ruta Sepetys

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