“You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.”
— Unknown

“You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.”
— Unknown
“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”
— Margaret Atwood
“Don’t be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life.”
— Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting (via books-n-quotes)
“Sometimes you imagine that everything could have been different for you, that if only you had gone right one day when you chose to go left, you would be living a life you could never have anticipated. But at other times you think there was no other way forward–that you were always bound to end up exactly where you have.”
— Kevin Brockmeier, The View from the Seventh Layer (via books-n-quotes)