Stefanie

“Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective.”
― Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday

“There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater.

But sometimes it doesn't.

Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life.

That is the sort of bravery I must have now.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.”
― Mia Couto

“I learned without her saying a word that there are truly many ways to pray, and lighting a candle is one of them.”
― Pat Schneider, How the Light Gets In: Writing as a Spiritual Practice