I was built this way for a reason, so I'm going to use it. ― Simone Biles

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If we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.

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The only impossible journey is the one you never begin. – Tony Robbins

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When the going gets tough, the tough get going ― Billy Joel

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Singleness would be recognized as a vital stage of the journey to maturation, a time to learn about who we are, to learn responsibility and self-sufficiency, to identify our true desires, and to confront our inner strengths and demons. — Harville Hendrix

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When your back is to the wall and you are facing fear head on, the only way is forward and through it. ― Stephen Richards

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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going – Beverly Sills

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When you break through a glass ceiling, you're going to get cut, and it's going to hurt. ― Kamala Harris

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I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense, but not irrational, nor naïve - because art takes us and makes us take a journey beyond price, beyond cost, into bearing witness to the world as it is and as it should be. Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

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When I thought I was going to lose my mind in the face of so much suffering. This is how I discovered that a human being cannot live without believing.

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