Being a hero is a choice you can make, not a cape someone else will drape over you. You make your own cape. - Alexi Pappas

If you find someone who pulls you out of the real world and makes you feel like the two of you are inside your own little snow globe, hold on to them.

Life is not about reducing our pain to nothing, it is about embracing pain and challenge as an invitation to rise and grow.

I used to think that my Always Try Hard Rule was the only way to avoid becoming like my mom, but now I saw that blindly obeying this rule had in fact made me more like her than I ever wanted to be.