Brooke Lark

We've Been Through Hell And Back

And here we stand in spite it all.
Sade Andria Zabala
January 9, 2017
“And here you are living despite it all.”
— Rupi Kaur, via twitter.com
Tagged: Inspirational, Life, perseverance, strength, Moving Forward
“Youth, with all its accompanying risks, humiliations, and uncertainties, the pressure to do it all before it’s too late.”
— Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl
Tagged: Youth, Risk, Embarrassment, Life
“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?”
— Voltaire, Candide
Tagged: Depression, Life, Tired, perseverance
“becoming dragonfish to survive
the horrors we are living
with tortured lungs
adapting to breathe blood.”
— Audre Lorde, The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
Tagged: perseverance, Trauma, Poetry
“I could be healed by the sheer courage of continuing to live. I could heal myself.”
— Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love" -The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin (1931-1932)
Tagged: perseverance, Inspirational, Healing, Life, Survival
“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.’”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe, 10 Powerful Suicide Prevention Quotes
Tagged: Don't Give Up, Waiting For The Tide To Turn, perseverance, Holding On
“Bravery was doing something dangerous without thinking. Courage was walking into danger, knowing full well the risks.”
— Gayle Forman, Just One Year
Tagged: Brave, Risk, Relationships, Fear, chances
“And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.”
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore
Tagged: Tough Love, Overcoming Adversity, Change, Relationships
“He still stands in spite of what his scars say.”
— Amy Winehouse, Some Unholy War
Tagged: Lyrics, perseverance, Survival, strength
“I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
— Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Tagged: Resilience, Literature, Life, Learning Experience
“Sometimes I'm the mess.
Sometimes I'm the broom.
On the hardest days, I have to be both.”
— Rudy Francisco, via twitter.com
Tagged: Poetry, Resilience, strength, Inspirational
“Fuck security. Give us the mess. Give us the big splash of life and color and failure. It’s beautiful.”
— Adam Gnade, The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Fighting the Big Motherfuckin' Sad
Tagged: Security, Risk, Failure, Life, danger
“Sometimes that bad/ evil part of yourself, the destructive messed-up part, wants you to stay where it’s safe and never get what you really want. But the best part of yourself is the one that says, ‘Please, please do this. You only live once, and I’m sick of this situation!”
— The Wing Girls, How to Get Out of the Friend Zone: Turn Your Friendship into a Relationship
Tagged: The Friend Zone, Risk, Loss, Rejection
“Will I be able to continue? I don’t know. But I’m betting on myself that I WILL.”
— Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie
Tagged: Resilience, perseverance, strength
“It was happening. And just because it didn’t happen forever, doesn’t mean it wasn’t valuable.’”
— Anonymous, Humans of New York
Tagged: Break Up, Perspective, Failure, Inspirational
“They say Icarus was a fool for flying too close to the sun. I say it's only because of him we know how close we can get. I love the fall of those brave enough to fail for the right reasons.

Fuck the easy glory of mere excellence. The only legacy I will accept is to know that however far I got — it was as far as I was capable of going. I want to drown in my own sweat knowing there was nothing left.”
— Jared Singer & Anthony Ragle, Potential
Tagged: Spoken Word, Risk, Risk Taking, perseverance, Hard Work, Resilience, Humility, Push Yourself
“Three things:
1- Stop letting pride win. Don't let it destroy and unravel friendships and loves. We blinked, and it's the holidays again. How many more laps around the sun are left? Life is slippery and fleeting, and distance so cold. Stay humble and warm. Remember what counts.
2- Be unapologetically in love with everything. People and the cosmos. Poetry and oceans. The growth everywhere from roses to your heart to the messes that brought you to this level. The ground beneath you. The feeling. Any feeling. The fact that you can feel at all- forever a privilege.
3- Stay tender. Always tender.”
— Victoria Erickson, via Facebook
Tagged: Soft, Softness, Pride, Emotional, Sensitive