Diana

“Don’t succumb to the fire. Be the bigger flame.”
― Parker S. Huntington, Devious Lies

“It’s OK if you fall down and lose your spark. Just make sure that when you get back up, you rise as the whole damn fire. —Colette Werden”
― Hoda Kotb, I Really Needed This Today: Words to Live By

“There are events in our personal lives and our collective history that seem categorically irredeemable, moments in which the grounds for gratefulness and hope have sunk so far below the sea level of sorrow that we have ceased to believe they exist. But we have within us the consecrating capacity to rise above those moments and behold the bigger picture in all of its complexity, complementarity, and temporal sweep, and to find in what we see not illusory consolation but the truest comfort there is: that of perspective.”
― John Steinbeck

“well then," said Locke. "Now that we've all realized precisely how tough we'll never be, let's stand on what we have.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora