kintsugi is the art of fixing broken pottery with gold to make it more valuable and more beautiful. Shattered pieces can make beatiful works of art just like you.

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

You've survived all the things you thought you couldn't.

It doesn't matter how expensive or professional your camera is, it will never be able to capture the true beauty of a sunset. The beauty is in experiencing it. I can't tell you how you look, but I can try to show you how you make me feel.

All the worst days only have twenty four hours. All the good days seem to stick with you forever.

You can't handle me. I handle me everyday and that already makes me stronger than you.

What's so bad about being useless? You're not meant to be used.

For all your days prepare,

   And meet them ever alike:

When you are the anvil, bear—

   When you are the hammer, strike.

- Edward Markham

Deep in the sky across the universe from here

Lies the mysteries of who we are

The extent of who we could be,

When will we be able to see

Beyond our individuality collectively

All the things that we truly have to offer,

The extent of our possibilities are unfathomableness

Like the depths of the night sky

Filled with stars as far as the eye can see,

Will we continue to let the gaps of the known

Shackle us to this ground we now call home,

Unintelligent creatures of mass destruction

Allowing a few to profit off the misery of us all

Destined to destroy each other and this world,

Or will we break free from these binds

Hold one another to a higher standard of morals

Stop allowing profit to dictate our destinies

Freeing the highest form of education for the masses,

Breaking the mold so every single individual

May explore the furthest reaches of their unknowns

Bringing the mysteries of this universe home,

Where we meant to just fall in line

Just another tragedy of the times,

Or are we destined to fly through the sky

Shooting Stars who have yet to learn to fly!

“... and tho'

We are not now that strength which in old days

Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;

One equal temper of heroic hearts,

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”

― Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses

I find age relentlessly advancing, relentlessly pushing me forward to that last day where I must resolve myself to an end of my journey, pursued solely on personal fortitude, in which I tried all I could taste, and fostered a similar nature in my comrades, exacted from the same similar nature instilled from my teachers. Here I shall cross over. Here I will make my peace in both how far I travelled and by what unyielding will I steered my own course.

Fewer words speak more to me than these.

- Andy Betz

"The fisrt casualty when war comes is truth." Usually attributed to Hiram Johnson

But actually dating back to Aeschylus (525 -426BC) who wrote “In war, truth is the first casualty.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Johnson

Samuel Johnson put it less succinctly: 'Among the calamities of war may be jointly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.' (from The Idler, 1758)

Also:

"Never take off the mask." Tonto (Johnny Depp) to the Lone Ranger (Armie Hammer) in the 2013 film, The Lone Ranger.

"Look for solutions, not problems." - me and lots of other more famous people.

"Every step you take forward is another step you never have to take again." -Frank Turner

"God loves everybody don't remind me." -The National

"Strong is fighting it's hard and it's painful and it's everyday." -Buffy Summers

"I don't think I can do this." -Frank Turner