“Happiness is something that I cannot always summon, it’s more like a butterfly landing on me briefly.”
Source: Arrangements in Blue
“Every time you try, even when you fall,
you get up stronger, ready to stand tall.”
Source: With Love, From Mom: The Journey of Dreams
“In a world so big, you can reach the sky,
You can be anything, just give it a try!
Climb every mountain, sail every sea,
Be who you want to be, happy and free.”
Source: With Love, From Mom: The Journey of Dreams
“Above all, [Jock Lewes] sought to instill supreme physical stamina and self-confidence, to make the men so inured to hardship that the reality, when it came, would feel almost easy. “The confident man will win,” Lewes insisted.”
Source: Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War
“It would be hard if you were trying to be someone that you weren’t, but being yourself is the easiest thing in the world because you are already it!”
Source: Riverland: For Children and their Young-at-Heart Old Folk
“How many summer days I missed out on - it's too many to count. I hate that I still care more about how other people perceive my body, rather than how I feel about my body. I want so desperately to be someone who is unapologetic, who loves herself, who doesn't have to analyze every moment.
I want to be be bold, adventurous - to say yes to life.”
Source: Main Character Energy
“Aimee Mullins, the president of the Women's Sports Foundation, told me recently that 84% of women business leaders in this country say that they were athletes. I'm not surprised: athletics breeds a level of confidence and leadership that can be hard for girls to find elsewhere. Parents act like they want their daughters to be as strong as their sons, but they're much tougher on the boys. Sports, on the other hand, doesn't discriminate. There's no opportunity to cover up anything on the court: you either get it done, or you don't.”
Source: Standing Tall: A Memoir of Tragedy and Triumph
“Life began to move more in my favor when I stopped creating plans B, C, and D. I’m intentional about what I want, and I’m confident in the fact that it is already mine.”
“We all have that magic within us - But it's the faculty to harness it - to turn something seemingly meaningless into something special, to be loose and spontaneous with it - that makes life most worth living.”
Source: The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir―The Transformational Power of Facing Yourself Fearlessly
“Leaning against that wall, dispassionately sipping a beer, he was the kind of quiet I've noticed in certain men and long hungered for: the silence of men who have it all and thus find it all boring, who don't exert the energy necessary to flirt, persuade, or convince because they know America will come crawling to them on hands and knees.”
Source: How We Fight For Our Lives