Quotes July 17, 2025

You either take what has been dealt to you and allow it to make you a better person, or you allow it to tear you down. The choice does not belong to fate, it belongs to you.
Josh Shipp, motivational speaker
 
 
 
 
Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it.
Michael J. Fox
 
 
 
 
We do not heal the past by dwelling there; we heal the past by living fully in the present.
Marianne Williamson, author
 
 
 
 
You can’t calm the storm, so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass.
Timber Hawkeye, author
 
 
 
 
If opening your eyes, or getting out of bed, or holding a spoon, or combing your hair is the daunting Mount Everest you climb today, that is OK.
Carmen Ambrosio, author
 
 
 
 
Maybe life isn’t about avoiding the bruises. Maybe it’s about collecting the scars to prove that we showed up for it.
Hannah Brencher, author