These are a few of my favorite quotes that I turn to when I need some guidance. I hope they find you in your time of need.

1. "You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love"- David Levithan, Every Day

2. "Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking" - Patrick Ness, The Knife Of Never Letting Go

3. "No one has the right to beat you" - Rhonda Rousey

4. "Strive to be whole, not perfect"- Not sure where this one is from except for my good friend's tattoo.

5. "Those who are so eager for women and girls to go back to the kitchen might think again about just what it is we might be up to in there. You can plan a lot of damage from a kitchen. It's also where the knives are kept." - Laurie Penny, Unspeakable Things

6. "If not now, then when? If not me, then who?" - Emma Watson in a speech to the UN

7. "I love breathing deeply, to smell your summer rain" - Lennon & Maisy, Love

8. " I feel that there is nothing truly more artistic than to love people" - Vincent Van Gogh

9. "For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream" - Vincent Van Gogh

10. "...so our bodies fused a link in the human chain that kept us from being swept into nothing" - Daniel Keyes, Flowers For Algernon