“I don’t care about losing people who don’t wanna be in my life anymore. I’ve lost people who meant the world to me and i’m still doing just fine.”— kingg-of-the-fall.tumblr, kingg-of-the-fall.tumblr.com
“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?”— Laurie Halse Anderson, amazon.com
“Strength doesn’t mean being able to stand up to anything, but being able to crawl on your belly a long, long time before you can stand up again.”— Mr Mark Matousek, amazon.com
“There is nothing stronger than a woman who has beaten her way back from being beaten down in the first place.”— Barbara Lieberman, amazon.com
“Though you might not look or feel strong, when it comes down to it, you will push through.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“So you can throw me to the wolves tomorrow I will come back leader of the whole pack.”— Bring Me The Horizon, open.spotify.com
“we live in a world that constantly shames us for the ways we have come to survive, for our coping strategies, for the ways we have been bruised.”— Alok Vaid Menon, facebook.com
“If you walked away from a toxic, negative, abusive, one-sided, dead-end low vibrational relationship or friendship — you won.”— Lalah Delia, twitter.com
“All my life, I've prided myself on being a survivor. But surviving is just another loop.”— Halley Wegryn Gross, Jonathan Nolan, Maeve Millay, Thandie Newton, imdb.com
“I know you can’t promise much right now, but please promise me this – promise me you’ll hang in there because I can promise you things will get better.”— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com
“I promise this moment will pass, I’m not saying everything will get better, but this horrible black hole you are stuck in has an out, I swear. Just hang in there a little longer, take it one day at a time, an hour at a time if you really need, and just keep breathing. You will make it through.”— Sara Huggins, thoughtcatalog.com
“if you suffer from depression, you’re a warrior. And there will be those who never understand. People who can’t possibly get how painful it is to just exist. But I know. I see you. And you and I? We’re not lazy. We’re doing our best to survive”— Ari Eastman, thoughtcatalog.com
“We know that we are strong. We know that we can stand up to that which scares us. Because we know that it is so much more than simply ‘all in our head.’ And we have done the bravest thing we can do by choosing to keep fighting anyway.”— Jamie Berube, thoughtcatalog.com
“A lot of victims or survivors, they want to go back to being normal. I just wanted to be treated normal. I didn't want special exceptions. I didn't want people to be scared to be my friend to avoid me because they don't know how I'm going to react. I always felt, like, Jeez, I survived nine months o…”— Elizabeth Smart, broadly.vice.com