Abuse-survivor Quote by Olga Trujillo

“I try to rely less and less on controlling nature. Instead I am learning to live with it's chaos.”

— David Mas Masumoto

“Our circumstances were out of our control. We just had to take things one day at a time and do our best to stay…

— Bella Forrest

“Things turning around for me had been the result of my focusing on the few areas in life I could change, and surrendering to…

— Liz Murray

“With a simple shift in perspective, I had changed the outcome of the summer, and myself. I was stronger, more enduring, flexible, and independent.…

— Deena Kastor

“Your whole life had broken down, Carter. It was chaos. It’s quite natural that you now choose to live in a carefully structured environment.…

— Joy Ellis

“Most people lived under the illusion that they were in control of their lives, but that wasn’t completely true. Yeah, you could decide what…

— Nicholas Sparks

“Somehow however just knowing that I could fully expect unhappiness to return – if not predictably then nevertheless reliably – was strangely liberating. The…

— Caroline Kettlewell

“It was the chaos of just doing things that actually got things done. Except, even if you assumed that not knowing how to do…

— Michael Wolff

“As I grew up, crisis slid from distant threat to imminent probability, and we tuned it out like static, we adjusted to each emergent…

— Jessie Greengrass

“My environment reflects the life I've led, the places I've visited and the people I've loved.”

— Virginia Nicholson

“The most life-changing experiences happen when I stop trying to control and simply let things unfold.”

— Rachel Macy Stafford

“It's funny, because I had thought, living through those first two months after the night at the lake, that the great crisis was about…

— Robin McKinley