Virginia Woolf: "Arrange whatever pieces come your way."

You were made to survive this. And everything after.

It's not what I have been through in my life that defines who I am, it's how I got through it that has made me the person I am today.

Sometimes when we're feeling sad, it's important just to feel the sadness. Like a snake shedding its skin, old feelings of remorse and regret and hurt and anger often have to come up in order to be released. On the other side we're a better person, capable of a happier life...who we are when we're no longer burdened by the buried feelings that weighed us down, or the self-defeating patterns that the pain produced.