Fate controls who walks into your life but you decide who you let walk out, who you let stay and who you refuse to let go.
—Unknown
Beautiful People
by Elizabeth Kubler Ros
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.
These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern.
Beautiful people do not just happen.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you're always thinking about yesterday.
—Unknown
You fight with the most important people in your life because those are the relationships worth fighting for.
—Unknown
Good doesn't exist without evil. Good wouldn't have a meaning, if we never knew what bad was. Success doesn't exist without failures. We'd have nothing to succeed at, if we didn't fail at anything. Love doesn't exist without struggle. There would be no reason to love, if we didn't struggle so much for how much it was worth it in the end.
—Beatriz Daquioag
I think you can't wait for someone to fly underneath you and save your life...I think you have to save yourself.
—Meredith, Grey's Anatomy
The answer is that you never, ever, rely on another person for your peace of mind...You have to - I don't know - you have to learn to live with yourself.
You have to learn to turn back your own sheets and set a table for one without feeling pathetic.
You have to be strong and confident and pleased with yourself and never give the slightest impression that you can't hack it without that certain someone. You have to fake the hell out of it.
—Armistead Maupin, More Tales of the City
The funny thing is, nobody really ever knows how much anybody else is hurting. We could be standing next to someone who is completely broken, and we wouldn't even know it.
—Unknown
When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.
—Jane Fonda
God doesn't give you the people you want, he gives you the people you need. To help you, to hurt you, to leave you, to love you and to make you the person you were meant to be.
—Unknown