“What wonderful thing didn’t start out scary?” – Isaac Marion

“I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life — and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.” – Georgia O’Keefe

“Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.” – Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

“Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.” – Doris Lessing

“There is scarcely any passion without struggle.” – Albert Camus

“When you are your own best friend, you don’t endlessly seek out relationships, friendships, and validation from the wrong sources because you realize that the only approval and validation you need is your own.”- Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

“What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.”- Confucius, Wisdom of Confucius

“I like me. I like my story and all the bumps and bruises. That’s what makes me uniquely me.”—Michelle Obama

“As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow.”—Charlie Chaplin

“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey