Handle stress exceptionally well

A diamond is just a piece of charcoal that handled stress exceptionally well.

Tired of running

“Please don’t jump!” Jane cried.
“You can’t stop me!’” Dick proclaimed.
“But why Dick? Why?” Jane asked as she wiped a tear from her eye.
Dick’s shoulders slumped as he turned toward Jane.
“I’m tired, Jane. I run, and I run and… I don’t even know where I’m running… or why. Or even what I’m running from. I’m tired of running Jane. I can’t do this anymore. I’m sorry”

If you know someone who’s depressed

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 is depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest and best things you will ever do.
- Stephen Fry

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You have survived your entire life

If you are reading this,
you have survived your entire life until this point.
You have survived traumas, heartbreak, devastation,
the different phases of life.

And here you are.
You go, motherfucker.
You’re awesome.

Your childhood may not have been perfect, but it’s over.

Don’t depend too much on anyone...

Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world.
Because even your shadow leaves you when you’re in darkness. 

Never be dependent to anyone in this world
because even your own shadow leaves you when you’re in darkness.

So stand up and fight

Do you think that your life has so many problems?
Believe me they are nothing in front of other living beings
who have to encounter death daily just for drinking water.
So stand up and fight.
Never give up!

You are living with something that you keep hidden deep inside

As I see it,
you are living with something that you keep hidden deep inside.
Something heavy.
I felt it from the first time I met you.
You have a strong gaze,
as if you have made up your mind about something.
To tell you the truth,
I myself carry such things around inside.
Heavy things.
That is how I can see it in you.
- Haruki Murakami

What doesn't kill you makes you a bad bitch.

Solitude strengthens, loneliness kills.

Throw roses into the abyss

…throw roses into the abyss and say:
here is my thanks to the monster
who didn’t succeed in swallowing me alive.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

No enemy within...

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

There is always a way

Strength comes from overcoming...

Strength doesn't come from what you can do.
It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't.

It is better to bend than to break.

True strength

Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do.
But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart,
that’s true strength.

You have remarkable power which you are not using.

Whatever the world can throw at you...

You have within you right now everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

But then again all great heroes do

And if I could tell you one thing it would be:
You are never as broken as you think you are.
Sure, you have a couple of scars, and a couple of bad memories,
but then again all great heroes do.

To be reborn and rise again

Sometimes you just have to die a little inside in order to be reborn and rise again as a stronger and wiser version of you.