For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.
Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.
Robert Brault
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Road to Daybreak: A Spiritual Journey
If nothing else, one day you can look someone straight in the eyes and say “But I lived through it. And it made me who I am today."
Iian Thomas
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
Maya Angelou
You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.
V for Vendetta
You don't become a better person because you're suffering, but you become a better person because you have experienced suffering.