there's no medicine like hope

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those

 who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid

 of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing,

 receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

 – Eleanor Roosevelt.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

— Sigmund Freud

Love isn’t finding that perfect person. It’s seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

 – unknown

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful

as expectation of something better tomorrow.

-- Orison Swett Marden

Tomorrow is fresh, with no mistakes in it.

-- L.M. Montgomery

Those that go searching for love, only manifest their own lovelessness.

And the loveless never find love, only the loving find love.

 And they never have to seek for it.

 – D.H. Lawrence

There’s something nice about the silence of a car ride in the dark,

 going home. When you were tired of the radio and conversation,

and it was okay to just be alone with your thoughts and the road ahead.

 If you’re that comfortable with someone, you don’t have to talk

--- Sarah Dessen

Bravery and cowardice are only a single step apart.

One towards that which you fear or one step away.

--Serra Duston

Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons.

Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.

— Cherie-Carter Scotts

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice

 and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.  

 --William Faulkner