determination

Who told you it was too late? And more importantly, why did you choose to believe them?

I__ like to sit there,_ I said softly to the girl sitting in front of the other mirror. She scampered. I took over her abandoned make-up and painted my face. Red cheeks, to attract hungry vampyre glances. Black liquid eyeliner and mascara, to draw attention away from my bitter eyes. My silky-thin, raven hair, undone in waves over my bare shoulders. The magenta shade of apple gloss on my lips, to make them plump and inviting. Finally, a strapless golden dress that hugged my hips and not much lower. I stood up, feeling the cold air slide down the bare skin of my back like fingers, and panicked. I couldn__ wear something like this! Not without a cardigan! A light dress jacket, at least!I took a gulp of Amrit__ wine and detached myself from the fretting child in my head. Then I strode from the sleeping chambers.

Victory's contagious" -Lorde

When I interviewed at Yale, the admissions committee asked me why they should let me into the program. I looked at them unblinking and said, 'Because I'm going to change the world some day. And I'm giving you the chance to say, We knew her when.

So, you__e failed many times at many things. That__ okay! Learn, grow, and move forward. With the right attitude and mindset, you can learn a lot from failure. Pay attention and keep on striving! You__e got this!

Everyone has to start somewhere. If you let people bring you down now, you__l never know how high you could climb. And you owe it to yourself to try.

Getting a Lady is easy, but keeping a Lady is clever.

There will be many times in your lives--- at school, and more particularly when you are a grown up---when people will distract or divert you from what needs to be done. You may even welcome the distraction. But if you use it as an excuse for not doing what you suppose to do, you can blame no one but yourself. If you truly wish to accomplish something, you should allow nothing to stop you, and chances are you'll succeed.

We need to be careful not to fall into the victim mindset. This usually happens because we have a dis-empowering perspective of the circumstance. We forget about __ho we are_ in Christ and that God is in control.

The more it rains and blows, the more certain we are to have him.

When nothing is at stake, everything's a waste.

There was one of two things I had a right to: liberty or death. If I could not have one, I would have the other; for now man should take me alive.

We already had three steps behind us."Hold on, Lia," I whispered. Hold on for me.

Hope. It is the most important thing in the world. I believe that now more than ever. Hope is what saved my life, hope is what gave me the courage and the strength to carry on. Hope _ that unshakable, golden belief that things can get better.

Do not let the fear of unknown deter you from trying.Keep trying until you succeed.

There are only two ways we can be beaten: we die or we give up. And we're not giving up.

With adolescent Nietzscheanism, she already planned to escape on the world's reversals from the sense of suffocation that seemed to her to be eclipsing her family, her sisters, and mother. She, she told herself, would move brightly along high places and stop to trespass and admire, and if the fine was a heavy one__ell, there was no good in saving up beforehand to pay it. Full of these presumptuous resolves, she promised herself that if, in the future, her soul should come starving and crying for bread it should eat the stone she might have to offer without complaint or remorse. Relentlessly she convinced herself that the only thing of any significance was to take what she wanted when she could. She did her best.

I don't know how well I can fight, or run, or judge, but when the blade comes, I swear on whatever they want me to swear on, I'll stop it, with my body if nothing else.