Cheri Isackson

“I suppose it is that sickness and weakness are selfish things and turn our inner eyes and sympathy on ourselves, whilst health and strength give love rein, and in thought and feeling he can wander where he wills.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it.
[Virtue]”
― W. Somerset Maugham

“I, personally, have resolved never to display weakness, to be always strong and firm and forthright, to show neither fear nor uncertainty-- no matter how fearful and uncertain I may be inside; I see no other way to survive this ordeal.”
― Jim Fergus, One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd