Kandrea Cheney

“Because feeling good about yourself doesn't come from changing how you look," she says. "It comes from changing how you see yourself. Learning to see yourself the way the people who love you see you.”
― M. Evan Wolkenstein, Turtle Boy

“Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness – and love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn’t ask anything in return, they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly. Love, truth, beauty, wisdom and consolation against death.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“Even after your heart breaks into a million pieces and your baby is gone, I am here to tell you- all around you the world will still go on spinning. People might even say kind words to you and think you are listening, but mostly you won't hear anything because you're too busy collecting each of those tiny pieces of your heart- wrapping them up into a safe corner of yourself, so you can find them again later.”
― Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock, The Smell of Other People's Houses

“I. you will
come across people
who simply cannot wait
to watch you fail.

II. there will be many times
in which you
will fail
(miserably),

III. but your failures
are just what happened-
they don't have to be
who you are.

IV. all you can do is
take those mistakes
& use them as fertilizer
to help you grow.

V. you have to
keeping moving forward
no matter what
their voices say.

- this life is still worth living.”
― Amanda Lovelace