I asked my followers on Twitter to share their favorite quotes with me, and here’s what they said:

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” -Eleanor Roosevelt

“Dogs are not our whole life but they make our lives whole.”

“Believe to achieve.”

“It is never too late to be who you might have been.”

“Scratch a cynic, and you’ll find a disappointed idealist.”

“Happiness begins with the decision to no longer be sad.”

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”

“This too shall pass.”

“Not all who wander are lost.” -J.R.R. Tolkien

“We have all been warmed by fires that we did not build and have drunk from wells we did not dig. Every man and woman owes much to others.” -Anonymous

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say & what you do are in harmony.” -Ghandi

“Destroy what destroys you.”

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” -Churchill

“We know what we are, but not what we may be.” -Shakespeare

“Scars remind us where we’ve been. They don’t have to dictate where we are going.” (Agent Rossi to Prentiss – Criminal Minds)

“Through suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says,’I’ll try again tomorrow.'”

“It is your birthright to survive.”

“With pain comes strength.”

Here are a few of my favorites:

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.”
-Booker T. Washington

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I’ve ended up where I needed to be.” 
– Douglas Adams

“There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
-Anaïs Nin