When you’re exhausted, when all you have to count on is a weakened, weary faith, hold on. When you think you want to die, hold on until you recognize that it’s not death you seek, but for the pain to go away. Hold on, because this darkness will surely fade away. Hold on. Please hold on.  ~ Tammie Byram Fowles, LISW, Ph.D

I’m sorry that you’re hurting so desperately right now. I know how painful the seconds, and minutes, and days can be, how long the nights are. I understand how very hard hanging on is, and how much courage it takes.

I ask though that you hold onto one day at a time. Just one day, and slowly this despair will pass. The feelings you fear you’re trapped in will serve their purpose, and then fade away. Difficult to imagine isn’t it? Almost impossible to believe when every cell in your body it seems cries out in agony, desperately in need of comfort. When it feels like the only thing in the whole world that can touch your pain and banish it is beyond your grasp. And after all this time, the assurance that you will heal has become an empty, broken promise.

Hold on because it’s worth the terrible waiting. Hold on because you are worthy. Hold on because the wisdom that will follow you out of this darkness will be a tremendous gift. Hold on because you have so much love and joy waiting to be experienced. Hold on because life is precious, even though it can bring terrible losses. Hold on because there is so much that you can’t now imagine waiting ahead on your journey - a destiny that only you can fulfill. Hold on although your exhausted and your grasp is shaky, and you want more than anything to let go sometimes, hold on even though. Please hold on.

And the light, the light at the end of the dark tunnel for so long cannot be seen, although eventually you’ll begin to feel its’ warmth as you move forward. And forward you must move in order to get through the hell of remembering, of despair, of rage, of grief. Keep looking forward please. Rest if you must, doubt your ability to survive the journey if you have to, but never let go of the guide ropes, although when you close your fingers around them, your hands feel empty, they are there. Please trust me, they are there.

Don't give up, just hope.

~ Unknown Author

Your body is the garage where you park your soul.  ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer

Your career, interests and relationships are important, but they are only important insofar as they lead you toward a deeper understanding of yourself. Otherwise, they are irrelevant.  ~ A.H. Almaas

Your character defects are not where you're bad, but where you're wounded.  ~ The Shadow Effect by Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, & Debbie Ford

Your children are spiritual beings who come through you, not for you.  ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer

Your confidence in the people & your doubt about them are closely related to your self-confidence & your self-doubt.  ~ Khalil Gibran

Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers. ~ Unknown Author

Your destiny is not determined by your circumstances. Your destiny is determined by the Creator of the universe.  ~ Joel Osteen

Your life, as you live it, is a movie that's emerged from your imagination. You're the writer, director and star. Change the script at any time.  ~ Marianne Williamson

Your lot in life is to excel. It’s to make a difference in this world. Take a stand and say, “I will not settle where I am. I was made for more.”  ~ Joel Osteen

Your mind is always either extending love or projecting fear as well as subconsciously planning how to do more of the same.  ~ Marianne Williamson

Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.  ~ Henry Winkler

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.  ~ William S. Burroughs

Your outer circumstances are but a reflection of your inner thoughts.  ~ Various authors

Your physical self is inspired by a divine force that beats it's heart, digests it's food and grows it's fingernails, and this same force is receptive to endlessly abundant health.  ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer

Your present doubt is due to that false identity, namely of identifying yourself with the mind that does the japa. Japa means clinging to one thought to the exclusion of all other thoughts.  ~ Ramana Maharishi

Your problem is you are too busy holding onto your unworthiness.  ~ Ram Dass

Your reputation is in the hands of others.  That's what a reputation is.  You can't control that.  The only thing you can control is your character.  ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer

Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than your career.  ~ Ryan Chris

Your soul - that inner quiet space - is yours to consult. It will always guide you in the right direction.  ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer

Your thoughts have little legs that go out & create what you think about.  ~ P. Hayes

Your will is free, and nothing can prevail against it.  ~ ACIM

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.  ~ Buddha

Your worst day with God will be better than your best day without Him. The Holy Spirit is here to speak to you and help you in every way you need help today.  ~ Joyce Meyer

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.  ~ Buddha

You're achieving a fraction of what you're capable of. Pray all obstructions to your full actualization be removed by Divine Intelligence.  ~ Marianne Williamson

You're never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.  ~ Byron Katie

You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a choice and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.  ~ Steven D. Woodhull

You've got to be perfectly willing to let go of your old perspectives before you can see through a new one!  ~ Buddhist Wisdom

You've got to be willing to be wrong and willing to do the work if you want to heal your relationships.  ~ Iyanla Vanzant

Zazen is the self being itself by itself.  ~ Kodo Sawaki Roshi

Zazen itself is God.  ~ Dogen

Zen aims at freedom but its practice is disciplined.  ~ Gary Snyder

Zen Buddhism does not preach. It waits until people feel stifled & insecure, driven by a secret longing.  ~ Eugen Herrigel

Zen has no secrets other than seriously thinking about birth-and-death.  ~ Takeda Shingen

Zen is like looking for the spectacles that are sitting on your nose.  ~ Zen Proverb

You create your thoughts, your thoughts create your intentions and your intentions create your reality.  ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer

You don’t have to fight every battle. You don’t have to respond to every critic. You can rise above these things and soar.  ~ Joel Osteen

You don't have the power to make life fair, but you do have the power to make life joyful.  ~ Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.  ~ Les Brown

You don't have to justify to anybody why you want something. Your heart's desires are valid independent of others.  ~ Chris Cade

You don't love a person because they are beautiful, they are beautiful because you love them.  ~ Dr.G

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.  ~ Brigham Young

You flow in the new life energy by getting the impulses of Truth from your heart. This does not mean burying yourself in some fantasy. It means receiving the impulses of Truth from your heart. Following your heart means opening your heart to the Truth. It does not mean convincing yourself that you are right when your life is falling apart.  ~ Connie Huebner

You get the best efforts from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within them.  ~ Bob Nelson

You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.  ~ Harry Firestone

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.  ~ Kahlil Gibran

You have a connection to the Divine Mind, the power source of the world. It is called breath. Just for today, remind yourself, "I am one with God." Give praise and thanksgiving for everything to let the universe know that you are ready to receive more.  ~ Iyanla Vanzant

You have a one of a kind gift to offer this world, and you are unique in the entire history of creation.  ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer

You have been made in the Image and Likeness of God - it is that destiny you came to fulfill. Believe in the goodness of God, and believe in the goodness of God's creation - namely, your holy Selves.  ~ Neil Donald Walsch

You have learned from experience that you have a body. That is ordinary knowledge. You were told you are that body, and that too becomes remembered knowledge. Now if you take the concept that you are the body and adhere to this ordinary knowledge as truth, it will limit your openness to the creative dynamism. You will not be open to that dynamism to reveal that you are not a body but something else - consciousness, for instance. This example makes it easy to appreciate that our optimizing dynamism becomes bogged down due to our identification with images, structures, points of view, positions, concepts, beliefs, preferences, prejudices, and so on - all forms of ordinary knowledge. This thwarts and distorts the creative unfoldment of our Being.  ~ A.H. Almaas

You have no need to be less loving to God's Son than He Whose Love created him as loving as Himself.  ~ ACIM

You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.  ~ Major Owens

You have so little faith in yourself because you are unwilling to accept the fact that perfect love is in you, & so you seek without for what you cannot find within.  ~ ACIM

You have to set the tone at the start of each day. If you leave your mind in neutral, negative thoughts will start to come just by default.  ~ Joel Osteen

You have to stay open to what God is doing now. What worked five years ago may not work today. If you’re going to be successful you have to be willing to change.  ~ Joel Osteen

You live through the darkness from what you learned in the light.  ~ Hope MacDonald

You make known to me the path of life; in Your presence there is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.  ~ Psalm 16:11

You may feel like you're at an empty place in your life today. But God wants to restore you, to encourage you, to fill you with His hope. He wants to do a new thing.  ~ Joel Osteen

You may feel lost and alone, but God knows exactly where you are at, and He has a good plan for your life.  ~ Joyce Meyer

You may feel today that nothing is going your way but God wants to bring you to a place of stability where you cannot be moved.  ~ Joel Osteen

You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.  ~ Khalil Gibran

You may have a million desires to be in other places, doing other things, but you are not there, you are here.  ~ Zen Proverb

You may have obstacles in your path, but the good news is the Power that is for you is greater than any power against you.  ~ Joel Osteen

You may have some obstacles in your path, but the good news is the Power that is for you is greater than any power that is trying to stop you.  ~ Joel Osteen

You may not see a way, but God can make a way.  ~ Joel Osteen

You must be willing to release worn-out thoughts, habits, and situations in order to receive and put to use the information Spirit will bring to you. Be patient and be open to receive the guidance that will support your spiritual growth.  ~ Iyanla Vanzant

You must believe me when I believe, and not when I doubt.   ~ Edmond Rostand

You must dare to do the thing you think cannot be done...as this is the only way to discover that there's nothing you can't do.  ~ Guy Finley

You need to keep reminding yourself that you are a Divine piece of God. Feeling as if you're unworthy of God's abundance is the same as denying your spiritual essence.  ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer

Remind yourself, to be kind toward yourself, in all the choices you make about your daily life.  ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer

You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.  ~ Andy Warhol

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.  ~ Dale Carnegie

You never have to leave yourself to be yourself.  ~ Chris Cade

You never know what motivates you.  ~ Cicely Tyson

You only believe other peoples' judgments about yourself when a part of you also believes that judgment to be true.  ~ Chris Cade

You only lose what you cling to.  ~ Buddha

You only need to change ONE THING to make this world a better place: YOUR PERSPECTIVE!  ~ Buddhist Wisdom

You operate from the belief you must protect yourself from what is happening because it must contain what threatens you.  ~ ACIM

You rest in God, and while the world is torn by winds of hate your rest remains completely undisturbed. Yours is the rest of truth. Appearances cannot intrude on you.  ~ ACIM

You see what you are looking for.  ~ Story Waters

You see yourself as a certain size, so you say, “I am this big.” It’s a basic assumption that you never question. You assume that the form that you see should define how your consciousness experiences itself. In other words, you’re making your consciousness, your inner sense of who you are, correspond to the form that your eye sees; you’re making it correspond to physical reality. But who says having a small body and an infinite consciousness is contradictory? There is no logic that says it can’t be so.  ~ A.H. Almaas

You see yourself as a ridiculous parody on Gods creation; weak, vicious, ugly and sinful, miserable and beset with pain. Such is your version of yourself; a self divided into many warring parts, separate from God, and tenuously held together by its erratic and capricious maker, to which you pray.  ~ ACIM

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.  ~ Kahlil Gibran

You think if what is true about you were revealed to you, you would be struck with horror so intense that you would rush to death by your own hand, living on after seeing this being impossible.  ~ ACIM

You think that death is of the body.  Yet it is but an idea, irrelevant to what is seen as physical.  ~ ACIM

You who were created by love like itself can hold no grievances and know your Self.  ~ ACIM

You will receive both praise and blame, but do not let either affect the poise of the mind.  ~ Sutta Nipata

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.  ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.  ~ Buddha

You... and only you choose your thoughts.  ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer

You'll always feel like you're riding on a rainbow if you help people.  ~ Richard Simmons

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.  ~ Alan Alda

Your Attitude + Your Choices = Your Life  ~ Unknown Author

Your body is merely your space station from whence you're meant to beam your love to the entire universe. Don't just relate to the station; relate to the beams.  ~ Marianne Williamson