The words of others

I don’t have words of my own today.  I’m shamelessly stealing from everyone else. Besides, they’ve all said it more eloquently than I ever could.

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”
- Michelangelo

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
- Lao Tzu

“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
- Anais Nin

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
- Mahatma Gandhi

“The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.”
- Robert Kiyosak

“If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.”
- William Shakespeare

“Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.”
- Daisaku Ikeda

“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”
- Maya Angelou

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
- Maya Angelou

“i can be changed by what happens to me. but i refuse to be reduced by it.”
- Maya Angelou

“I feel bruised and battered by our infertility – my heart is buried under all the negative results, the uncertainty, the fear, the worry, the anguish of it all.

And I really feel like I’ve lost hope that we will be pregnant. I want it so badly, and I just don’t know that it’s ever going to happen for us.”
- Serenity Now

“It’s much easier to focus on what’s coming up than to consider the loss that just occurred. To think about your hopes and wishes lost. “
Samantha at Southern Infertility

“I would like a separation from my reproductive system.

No, I am not talking about a mental separation. I am talking about a complete severance from my being. Having it thrown against something hard, a wall isn’t hard enough, a mountain of granite is what I am envisioning. Stomping on it, then putting it in a blender so that there is NOTHING left.

It is obviously big piece of crap. It is the epitome of evil. In the dictionary, a picture of my malfunctioning, destructive, irritating reproductive cycle should be adjacent to evil.”
- Flutter at Flutter of Hope

“White. White. White. That’s the color where the second line is supposed to be. Didn’t everyone, EVERYONE get the memo that this cycle was supposed to work?

I thought in the pit of my soul it would work this time.”
- Larisa at The Waiting Womb