Marcus Aurelius: "Begin each day by telling yourself: today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty."

The world is heavy but your bones (just a cubic inch) can hold 19,000 lbs ounce for ounce they are stronger than steel atom for atom you are more precious than diamond and stars have died so that you may live you need to remember these things when you say that you are weak and worthless.

The storm made the tree grow deeper roots.

When you go through the hardest of times, the people that come to your aid are the ones that you will carry with you forever. The people that don’t, no matter how close you perceived them to be, should not be part of your inner circle. Pain and hardships help highlight who is, who has, and who will always be there for you throughout the roller coaster of life.