Carson Burger House

"Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions… Do your thing and don’t care if they like it."

"Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong.”

"When my body is strong, I feel stronger inside. I feel more capable of handling emotional situations.”

"Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life."

"When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder."

"I didn’t have anybody. Really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life."

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."

"Find the smartest people you can and surround yourself with them."

"If you overthink things, the moment will pass you by."

"I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.”

"The important thing is to always ask the world to do some things. But sometimes they cannot be done, so you have to take a stab, and you have to do them."

"I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles.”

“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”

"If you don’t see a clear path for what you want, sometimes you have to make it yourself.”

"I don't want to be better than you or her or him - I want to be better than I am right now."

“The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.”

"I’d rather regret the risks that didn’t work out than the chances I didn’t take at all.”

"Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else."

"Champions keep playing until they get it right.”

"Perhaps some detours aren’t detours at all. Perhaps they are actually the path.”