“Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.” – Arthur Golden

“Don’t let what you thought you were yesterday keep you from becoming what you’re meant to be today.” – Vironika Tugaleva

“My burden is my purpose. Without it, I wouldn’t be.” – Solange Nicole

“Nothing’s a failure, it’s just not supposed to work out that way, because something better is supposed to come along.” – Sandra Bullock

“When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell

“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Embrace the glorious mess that you are.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

“We turn not older with years, but newer every day.” – Emily Dickinson

“Every moment of one’s existence is growing into more or retreating into less.” – Norman Mailer

“We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.” – Harrison Ford

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