an angel

"sometimes an angel is found in the dark"

- k. webster

within these arms

"o, come, be buried
a second time within these arms"

-william shakespeare

maybe

"maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light"

- madeleine l'engle

my dark side

"i must also have a dark side if i am to be whole"

- carl jung

wounded

"there are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds"

- laurell k. hamilton

hold on

"...so bless my heart and bless my mind

i got so much to do, i ain't got much time

so, must be someone up above saying,

'come on, girl! yeah, you got to get back up!'

you got to hold on

yeah, you got to hold on..."

- from "hold on" by Alabama Shakes

unsteady

"hold, hold on, hold onto me

'cause i'm a little unsteady

a little unsteady..."

- x ambassadors

confidence

"to be more confident you need to give a whole lot less of a shit about what other people think of you."

-augusten burroughs

pretendin'

"we're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are."

- simone elkeles

a nest

"you cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent their making a nest in your hair."

- chinese proverb

Resistance

"most of us have two lives.  the life we live, and the unlived life within us.  between the two stands Resistance."

- steven pressfield