Work hard. Do good. Be incredible. - Cheryl Strayed

Compassion isn’t about solutions. It’s about giving all of the love that you’ve got.

As I clung to the chaparral that day, attempting to patch up my bleeding finger, terrified by every sound that the bull was coming back, I considered my options. There were only two and they were essentially the same. I could go back in the direction I had come from, or I could go forward in the direction I intended to go. The bull, I acknowledged grimly, could be in either direction, since I hadn’t seen where he’d run once I closed my eyes. I could only choose between the bull that would take me back and the bull that would take me forward. And so I walked on.

Boundaries teach people how to treat you and they teach you how to respect yourself. Every last one of us can do better than give up.