Rise

“That luminous part of you that exists beyond personality–your soul, if you will–is as bright and shining as any that has ever been....Clear away everything that keeps you separate from this secret luminous place. Believe it exists, come to know it better, nurture it, share its fruits tirelessly.”
― George Saunders

“How slow life is, how violent hope is.”
― Guillaume Apollinaire

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche