And if you feel like you're drowning, go swimming...

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This is what you do.

If you feel low, you stand tall. You mess up, you move on.
You want to try something, try it,
and if it was a stupid thing to try, you look it in the eye. There’s no turning back.
You apologize if you’re sorry, but know
that the nimblest, strongest hands can’t rebuild a bridge out of embers, so cut new wood.
Start from scratch.
You love with your whole heart. If you’re jealous, talk yourself from the ledge.
If you can’t talk yourself down from the ledge,
have a good time up there, looking down on the world.
If you have to lie to make everything true again, lie like you mean it.
If you find yourself in a cage, reach out through the bars for the key,
unlock the door, and run away.
If running away gets dangerous, run home.
If home doesn’t mean what it used to mean, decide what home will be in the future.
If your best friend says she doesn’t trust you, hold her jaw in your hand until it hurts,
and make her face you. Thats all it takes.
If you think you love a guy, see how his hand looks in yours, thats all it takes.
If you get exiled into a new land, then go discover it.
And if you feel like you’re drowning, go swimming.
Hobson Brown




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Life is a storm, my young friend.
You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next.
What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
Alexandre Dumas




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There are no mistakes, no coincidences.
All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross




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If you're going to go through hell, I suggest you come back learning something.
Drew Barrymore




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Returning hate for hate multiplies hate,
adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.
Martin Luther King Jr




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There comes a time when the world gets quiet
and the only thing left is your own heart.
So you'd better learn the sound of it.
Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.
Sarah Dessen




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Do not forget your duty to love yourself.
Soren Kierkegaard




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Growing up sucks.
Not all kisses are magic, and most boys do not live up to your expectations.
But there are those times when everything, I mean love, romance, relationships,
it all falls together perfectly and it's incredible.
It's those moments, no matter how depressingly few and far between,
that make growing up worth it.
Dawson’s Creek




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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.
In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats,
so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
Maya Angelou




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Honestly, I think its kinda funny that you waste your breath talking about me.
Got me feeling kinda special really.
Kesha




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I didn’t come to tell you that I can’t live without you…
I can live without you. I just don’t want to.
He’s Just Not That Into You




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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think,
all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read,
and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs




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Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.
But what will happen in all the other days that ever come
can depend on what you do today.
Ernest Hemingway




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It's such a lie that you should do what's in your heart.
If we all did what was in our hearts, the world would come to a halt.
My So Called Life




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When I’m worried and I can’t sleep,
I count my blessings instead of sheep.
Irving Berlin




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You know how when you were a little kid and you believed in fairy tales,
that fantasy of what your life would be, white dress,
prince charming who would carry you away to a castle on a hill.
You would lie in bed at night and close your eyes and you had complete and utter faith.
Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, Prince Charming,
They were so close you could taste them, but eventually you grow up.
One day you open your eyes and the fairy tale disappears.
Most people turn to the things and people they can trust.
But the thing is its hard to let go of that fairy tale entirely
cause almost everyone has that smallest bit of hope, of faith,
that one day they will open their eyes and it will come true.
Grey's Anatomy