You're the prettiest when you're happy. Don't use all your energy being sad.

Keep your head up and smile, because someone somewhere wants to see you fail.

One day I'll be appreciated for what I do instead being held back for what I don't do.

I don't think you ever realize how much you love something until you have to give it up.” ~Haley James Scott

The sky does not despair when a star falls

She felt the intimate loss of who she was meant to become.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.Linus Pauling

It is always difficult, even with the best will in the world, to look back a long way and see anything resembling the truth.

Asking Saudi Arabia and Iran to work together, when they can't stand each other and are engaged in a proxy battle right at this moment.

I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.

After all, we did not invent symbolism; it is a universal age-old activity of the human imagination.

She began to be reassured by these pains, tangible symbols of her success in becoming thinner than anyone else. Her only identity was being "the skinniest." She had to feel it.

Athletic ability can be taken away like that. It can all end in a heartbeat.