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âThere is no situation that is not transformable there is no person who is hopelessâ
â Desmond Tutu
âNo great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time.â
â Epictetus
âIt is not the strongest of the species that survives nor the most intelligent but the one most responsive to changeâ
â Charles Darwin
âDripping water hollows out stone not through force but through persistenceâ
â Ovid
âI alone cannot change the world but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripplesâ
â Mother Teresa
âIn the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.â
â Albert Einstein
âEvery strike brings me closer to the next home runâ
â Babe Ruth
âIn times of adversity and change we really discover who we are and what we are made ofâ
â Howard Schultz
âDifficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.â
â Seneca the Elder
âThe human capacity for burden is like bamboo â far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.â
â Jodi Picoult
âThe beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselvesâ
â Thomas Merton
âI am not what I am I am what I do with my handsâ
â Louise Bourgeois
âThe attempt to escape from pain is what creates more painâ
â Gabor Mate
âThe soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.â
â John Vance Cheney
âWe must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hopeâ
â Martin Luther King Jr.
âYou never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choiceâ
â Bob Marley
âThere is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better stronger richer quicker or smarter everything is withinâ
â Miyamoto Musashi
âAll shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be wellâ
â Julian of Norwich
âAn entrepreneur is someone who will jump off a cliff and assemble an airplane on the way downâ
â Reid Hoffman
âIf roses can grow through concrete then so can youâ
â Nikita Gill
âHardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destinyâ
â C.S. Lewis
âDo not give up do not ever give upâ
â Jim Valvano
âWhat makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a wellâ
â Antoine de Saint-Exupery
âThe art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen.â
â Marcus Aurelius
âSurvival can be summed up in three words never give upâ
â Bear Grylls
âI hated every minute of training but I said do not quit suffer now and live the rest of your life as a championâ
â Muhammad Ali
âThe broken bone, once healed, is strongest at the place it was broken.â
â John Lyly
âA smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.â
â Unknown
âA good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures for anythingâ
â Irish Proverb
âWhere there is no struggle there is no strengthâ
â Oprah Winfrey
âOur greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fallâ
â Confucius
âI am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my shipâ
â Louisa May Alcott
âAlmost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes including youâ
â Anne Lamott
âSometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the sameâ
â Tom Brady
âThey can because they think they canâ
â Virgil
âIt is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at allâ
â J.K. Rowling
âAction springs not from thought but from a readiness for responsibilityâ
â Dietrich Bonhoeffer
âNothing others do is because of you what others say and do is a projection of their own realityâ
â Don Miguel Ruiz
âSuccess is most often achieved by those who do not know that failure is inevitableâ
â Coco Chanel
âJust keep swimmingâ
â Dory from Finding Nemo
âI knew that if I failed I would not regret that but I knew the one thing I might regret is not tryingâ
â Jeff Bezos
âThough the bamboo forest is dense, water flows through it freely.â
âMany of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave upâ
â Thomas Edison
âFall seven times stand up eightâ
â Japanese Proverb
âTell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious lifeâ
â Mary Oliver
âTo bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden.â
â Publilius Syrus
âDo not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.â
âLearned helplessness is the giving-up reaction the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do does not matterâ
â Martin Seligman
âYou think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world but then you readâ
â James Baldwin
âSometimes your joy is the source of your smile but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joyâ
â Thich Nhat Hanh
âDifficulties are things that show a person what they areâ
âThe human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.â
â Mark Twain
âI can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.â
â Maya Angelou
âStart where you are use what you have do what you canâ
â Arthur Ashe
âThe strength of the team is each individual member the strength of each member is the teamâ
â Phil Jackson
âIt is not the mountain we conquer but ourselvesâ
â Edmund Hillary
âThe snow goose need not bathe to make itself white neither need you do anything but be yourselfâ
â Zhuangzi
âAt the end of the day we can endure much more than we think we canâ
â Frida Kahlo
âDo not judge me by my successes judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up againâ
â Nelson Mandela
âA great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and further will enable a change in the destiny of humankindâ
â Daisaku Ikeda
âFailure is simply the opportunity to begin again this time more intelligentlyâ
â Henry Ford
âPeople have a hard time letting go of their suffering out of a fear of the unknown they prefer suffering that is familiarâ
âThe greatest glory in living lies not in never falling but in rising every time we fallâ
âThere is no adrenaline rush it is much more like a deep calmâ
â Alex Honnold
âI have missed more than 9000 shots in my career I have lost almost 300 games 26 times I have been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed I have failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeedâ
â Michael Jordan
âThe beauty and the mystery of life lies not in avoiding the difficult moments but in being open to themâ
â Orhan Pamuk
âA just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.â
â Fyodor Dostoevsky
âWhat does not destroy me, makes me stronger.â
â Friedrich Nietzsche
âWe ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of Godâ
â Brother Lawrence
âHowever difficult life may seem there is always something you can do and succeed atâ
â Stephen Hawking
âNo mud no lotusâ
âThe wound is the place where the Light enters you.â
â Rumi
âSelf-compassion is not self-indulgence self-compassion is self-preservationâ
â Kristin Neff
âSuccess is not easy and it is certainly not for the lazyâ
â Vera Wang
âThe heart that breaks open can contain the whole universeâ
â Joanna Macy
âHope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch feeling lucky it is an axe you break down doors with in an emergencyâ
â Rebecca Solnit
âToday is hard tomorrow will be worse but the day after tomorrow will be sunshineâ
â Jack Ma
âSmooth seas do not make skillful sailorsâ
â African Proverb
âDo not fake it till you make it fake it till you become itâ
â Amy Cuddy
âThe ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience but where he stands at times of challenge and controversyâ
âA pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficultyâ
â Winston Churchill
âHope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of outcomeâ
â Vaclav Havel
âWholeness does not mean perfection it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of lifeâ
â Parker Palmer
âI am not concerned that you have fallen I am concerned that you ariseâ
â Abraham Lincoln
âTurn your wounds into wisdom.â
âNever underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spiritâ
â Wilma Rudolph
âNo matter what nobody can take away the dances you have already hadâ
â Gabriel Garcia Marquez
âThe stiff and unbending is the disciple of death the soft and yielding is the disciple of lifeâ
â Laozi
âChampions keep playing until they get it rightâ
â Billie Jean King
âWhen something is important enough you do it even if the odds are not in your favorâ
â Elon Musk
âWhat lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within usâ
â Ralph Waldo Emerson
âThe two most powerful warriors are patience and timeâ
â Leo Tolstoy
âOut of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scarsâ
â Khalil Gibran
âIf the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone these women together ought to be able to turn it backâ
â Sojourner Truth
âThere is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.â
â Og Mandino
âAll the adversity I have had all my troubles and obstacles have strengthened meâ
â Walt Disney
âI learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over itâ
âGod grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the differenceâ
â Reinhold Niebuhr
âYou cannot stop the waves but you can learn to surfâ
â Jon Kabat-Zinn
âIn the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.â
âHe who learns must suffer and even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair against our will comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of Godâ
â Aeschylus
âI am convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseveranceâ
â Steve Jobs
âPatience is the companion of wisdom.â
â Augustine of Hippo
âThe world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken placesâ
â Ernest Hemingway
âSometimes life hits you in the head with a brick do not lose faithâ
âYou must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current realityâ
â James Stockdale
âIt is not the bruise on the body that hurts. It is the bruise on the heart.â
â Aisha bint Abu Bakr
âHave no fear of perfection you will never reach itâ
â Salvador Dali
âThe only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it move with it and join the danceâ
â Alan Watts
âFailure is not the opposite of success it is part of successâ
â Arianna Huffington
âYou cannot find peace by avoiding lifeâ
â Virginia Woolf
âThe gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.â
â Seneca the Younger
âIt is not down in any map true places never areâ
â Herman Melville
âWe are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the starsâ
â Oscar Wilde
âIf the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you it will be enoughâ
â Meister Eckhart
âThe inferno of the living is not something that will be it is what is already here the inferno where we live every day that we form by being togetherâ
â Italo Calvino
âYou are the sky everything else is just the weatherâ
â Pema Chodron
âI made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could and no amount of poverty or misfortune was going to hold me downâ
â Colonel Sanders
âThe battles that count are not the ones for gold medals the struggles within yourself the invisible inevitable battles inside all of us that is where it is atâ
â Jesse Owens
âPatience and fortitude conquer all things.â
âHe who has a why to live can bear almost any how.â
âWhat we achieve inwardly will change outer realityâ
â Plutarch
âIt is not about how hard you hit it is about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forwardâ
â Rocky Balboa
âIt is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.â
â Seneca
âIn the middle of difficulty lies opportunityâ
âA society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they will never sitâ
â Greek Proverb
âDid you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete proving natures laws wrong it learned to walk without having feetâ
â Tupac Shakur
âYou gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the faceâ
â Eleanor Roosevelt
âFire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.â
â Martha Graham
âThere is a crack in everything that is how the light gets inâ
â Leonard Cohen
âThe most effective way to do it is to do itâ
â Amelia Earhart
âOur greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.â
âDo what you can with what you have where you areâ
â Teddy Roosevelt
âFirst they ignore you then they laugh at you then they fight you then you winâ
â Mahatma Gandhi
âNothing in life is to be feared it is only to be understood now is the time to understand more so that we may fear lessâ
â Marie Curie
âDo not be afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still.â
âThat which does not kill us makes us strongerâ
âDo not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise instead seek what they soughtâ
â Matsuo Basho
âWhen I dare to be powerful to use my strength in the service of my vision then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraidâ
â Audre Lorde
âYour pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understandingâ
â Kahlil Gibran
âWhatever anybody says or does assume positive intent you will be amazed at how your whole approach to a person or problem becomes very differentâ
â Indra Nooyi
âIf you change the way you look at things the things you look at changeâ
â Wayne Dyer
âNothing is miserable unless you think it so and conversely every lot is happy if you are content with itâ
â Boethius
âFear is not the natural state of civilized peopleâ
â Aung San Suu Kyi
âIt is not the critic who counts not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arenaâ
â Theodore Roosevelt
âAnd so it goesâ
â Kurt Vonnegut
âAll that you touch you change all that you change changes you the only lasting truth is changeâ
â Octavia Butler
âThe boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedomâ
â Tara Brach
âWhen we are no longer able to change a situation we are challenged to change ourselvesâ
â Viktor Frankl
âPersist and resist: these two words contain the secret of all tenacious natures.â
â Victor Hugo
âI took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart I am I am I amâ
â Sylvia Plath
âA wounded deer leaps the highest.â
â Emily Dickinson
âDifficulties are just things to overcome after allâ
â Ernest Shackleton
âLife is the dancer and you are the danceâ
â Eckhart Tolle
âKnowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving when we can be alone we can be with others without using them as a means of escapeâ
â bell hooks
âDo not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.â
âThe quieter you become the more you can hearâ
â Ram Dass
âPersistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems.â
â Gever Tulley
âIt is not whether you get knocked down it is whether you get upâ
â Vince Lombardi
âOne who would pick the roses must not fear the thorns.â
â Saadi Shirazi
âI really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fallâ
â Serena Williams
âOnly in the darkness can you see the stars.â
âA heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.â
â Horace
âIf you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challengesâ
â Pat Riley
âIt is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficultâ
âIn the end nobody wins unless everybody winsâ
â Bruce Springsteen
âI am not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps I am the first Simone Bilesâ
â Simone Biles
âThe only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes nextâ
â Ursula K. Le Guin
âI prayed for freedom for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legsâ
â Frederick Douglass
âYou miss one hundred percent of the shots you do not takeâ
â Wayne Gretzky
âI would rather be ashes than dust I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rotâ
â Jack London
âFor what it is worth it is never too late to be whoever you want to beâ
â F. Scott Fitzgerald
âKites rise highest against the wind, not with it.â
âA winner is a dreamer who never gives upâ
âCompare yourself to who you were yesterday not to who someone else is todayâ
â Jordan Peterson
âTime is the substance I am made of time is a river which sweeps me along but I am the riverâ
â Jorge Luis Borges
âThe gem cannot be polished without friction nor the person perfected without trialsâ
â Chinese Proverb
âWind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire likewise with randomness and uncertainty and chaos you want to use them not hide from themâ
â Nassim Nicholas Taleb
âLet everything happen to you beauty and terror just keep going no feeling is finalâ
â Rainer Maria Rilke
âThe single story creates stereotypes and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue but that they are incompleteâ
â Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
âResilience is accepting your new reality even if it is less good than the one you had beforeâ
â Elizabeth Edwards
âIt is in the darkest moments that we must focus to see the lightâ
â Native American Proverb
âTurn your wounds into wisdomâ
âThe conversational nature of reality means we can never just command our way through life we must be willing to be changed by what we findâ
â David Whyte
âThe bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.â
âAlthough the world is full of suffering it is also full of the overcoming of itâ
â Helen Keller
âMisfortune nobly born is good fortune.â
âThe most meaningful way to succeed is to help other people succeedâ
â Adam Grant
âGrit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goalsâ
â Angela Duckworth
âIt may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journeyâ
â Wendell Berry
âDiscipline equals freedomâ
â Jocko Willink
âFor every failure there is an alternative course of action you just have to find itâ
â Mary Kay Ash
âTo be fully alive fully human and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nestâ
âThere may be people who have more talent than you but there is no excuse for anyone to work harder than you doâ
â Derek Jeter
âThe world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.â
âVulnerability is not winning or losing it is having the courage to show up when you cannot control the outcomeâ
â Brene Brown
âWe cannot choose what happens to us but we can choose how we respondâ
â Edith Eger
âYou build on failure you use it as a stepping stone close the door on the pastâ
â Johnny Cash
âIn the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summerâ
â Albert Camus
âYou may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.â
â Margaret Thatcher
âSince we cannot change reality let us change the eyes which see realityâ
â Nikos Kazantzakis
âGreat deeds are usually wrought at great risksâ
â Herodotus
âI never dreamed about success I worked for itâ
â Estee Lauder
âEverything can be taken from a person but one thing the last of the human freedoms to choose ones attitude in any given set of circumstancesâ
âThe oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.â
â Robert Jordan
âWhat we pay attention to grows so what are you attending toâ
â adrienne maree brown
âIn the confrontation between the stream and the rock the stream always wins not through strength but through persistenceâ
â Buddha
âI used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world there must be someone just like meâ
âThe secret of life is to have a task something you devote your entire life to something you bring everything to every minute of the day for the rest of your lifeâ
â Henry Moore
âPain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heartâ
âNew beginnings are often disguised as painful endingsâ
â Lao Tzu
âSome of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting goâ
â Hermann Hesse
âIf you are going through hell keep goingâ
âCourage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'â
â Mary Anne Radmacher
âCourage is not the absence of fear courage is fear walkingâ
â Susan David
âSuccess is not final failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that countsâ
âThe obstacle is the wayâ
â Ryan Holiday
âThere is a saying in Tibetan that at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggarâ
â Dalai Lama
âThe bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resistsâ
âA life is not important except in the impact it has on other livesâ
â Jackie Robinson
âCourage does not always roar sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying I will try again tomorrowâ
âAlmost every problem we face can be helped by our willingness to see it differentlyâ
â Lori Gottlieb
âMountains are not fair or unfair they are just dangerousâ
â Reinhold Messner
âIn the dark night of the soul bright flows the river of Godâ
â John of the Cross
âIf I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giantsâ
â Isaac Newton
âOwning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever doâ
âAdversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.â
âAlthough the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.â
âThe most important thing is to find out what the most important thing isâ
â Shunryu Suzuki
âYou have power over your mind not outside events realize this and you will find strengthâ
âHow wild it was to let it beâ
â Cheryl Strayed
âYou may encounter many defeats but you must not be defeatedâ
âStrength does not come from physical capacity it comes from an indomitable willâ
âWhen the world pushes you to your knees, you are in the perfect position to pray.â
âThose who have a why to live can bear with almost any howâ
âYou are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft that you will die without ever realizing your potentialâ
â David Goggins
âDo not ask what the world needs ask what makes you come alive and go do itâ
â Howard Thurman
âResilience is the strength and speed of our response to adversity and we can build it it is not fixedâ
â Sheryl Sandberg
âSuffering has been stronger than all other teaching and has taught me to understand what your heart used to beâ
â Charles Dickens
âSome people are old at 18 and some are young at 90 time is a concept that humans createdâ
â Yoko Ono
âIn the midst of chaos there is also opportunityâ
â Sun Tzu
âEverything negative pressure challenges is all an opportunity for me to riseâ
â Kobe Bryant
âPain is temporary quitting lasts foreverâ
â Lance Armstrong
âWhat you cannot avoid welcomeâ
â Danish Proverb
âThe soul that is within me no man can degrade.â
âWhen it is dark enough, you can see the stars.â
âCourage is resistance to fear mastery of fear not absence of fearâ
âBe the heroine of your life not the victimâ
â Nora Ephron
âAnd now that you dont have to be perfect you can be goodâ
â John Steinbeck
âWater is fluid soft and yielding but water will wear away rock which is rigid and cannot yieldâ
âWe can do hard thingsâ
â Glennon Doyle
âResilience is a social rather than an individual quality we dont just pick ourselves up we are picked up by othersâ
â Krista Tippett
âLet nothing disturb you let nothing frighten you all things are passing away God never changes patience obtains all thingsâ
â Teresa of Avila
âDo not be wise in words be wise in deedsâ
â Hebrew Proverb
âHope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darknessâ
âBeing able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health safe connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying livesâ
â Bessel van der Kolk
âYou need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every dayâ
â Elizabeth Gilbert
âAnd once the storm is over you wont remember how you made it through how you managed to survive you wont even be sure the storm is really over but one thing is certain when you come out of the storm you wont be the same person who walked inâ
â Haruki Murakami
âThe view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your lifeâ
â Carol Dweck
âYou have power over your mind â not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.â
âAdversity reveals genius prosperity conceals itâ
âA ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.â
â John A. Shedd
âJust as despair can come to one only from other human beings hope too can be given to one only by other human beingsâ
â Elie Wiesel
âMemories of our lives of our works and our deeds will continue in othersâ
â Rosa Parks
âThe trouble is you think you have timeâ
â Jack Kornfield
âIt always seems impossible until it is doneâ
â Mandela
âWhen the world is falling apart around you the first thing you do is get your own mind rightâ
â Man Haron Monis
âWe delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone throughâ
âThere is always light if only we are brave enough to see it if only we are brave enough to be itâ
â Amanda Gorman
âMy dad encouraged us to fail growing up he would ask us what we failed at that weekâ
â Sara Blakely
âTo love life more than the meaning of it is the most resilient stance of allâ
â Dostoevsky
âWhat is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still livesâ
â Rupi Kaur
âI do not think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remainsâ
â Anne Frank
âI will seize fate by the throat it shall not overcome meâ
â Beethoven
âLife is never guaranteed to be great nothing is guaranteed except that you can tryâ
â Ai Weiwei
âI have not failed I have just found 10000 ways that will not workâ
âIn the midst of movement and chaos keep stillness inside of youâ
â Deepak Chopra
âI have been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I have never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to doâ
â Georgia OKeeffe
âOut of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.â
âEver tried ever failed no matter try again fail again fail betterâ
â Samuel Beckett
âA great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.â
â Catherine the Great
âThe doors to the world of the wild self are few but precious if you have a deep scar that is a doorâ
â Clarissa Pinkola Estes
âMay you have the courage to listen to the voice of desire that disturbs you when you have settled for something safeâ
â John ODonohue
âSomeone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness it took me years to understand that this too was a giftâ
âThe most fundamental aggression to ourselves the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gentlyâ
âFall seven times, stand up eight.â
âWe never know how high we are till we are called to riseâ
âYou do not learn to walk by following rules you learn by doing and by falling overâ
â Richard Branson
âThe purpose of our lives is to be happy and happiness is not something ready made it comes from your own actionsâ
âI cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feetâ
â Persian Proverb
âI am always doing that which I cannot do in order that I may learn how to do itâ
â Pablo Picasso
âWhen one door closes another opens but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for usâ
â Alexander Graham Bell
âYou are your best thingâ
â Toni Morrison
âWater does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it.â
â Margaret Atwood
âPain is inevitable suffering is optionalâ
âYou could call this the moment I became an educated person I mean the moment I was no longer a person who merely learned but someone who was actually changed by what I learnedâ
â Tara Westover
âWhen you find your path you must not be afraid you need to have sufficient courage to make mistakesâ
â Paulo Coelho
âThings turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn outâ
â John Wooden
âI tell my story not because it is unique but because it is the story of many girlsâ
â Malala Yousafzai
âEvery great dream begins with a dreamer always remember you have within you the strength the patience and the passion to reach for the starsâ
â Harriet Tubman
âIf you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint then by all means paint and that voice will be silencedâ
â Vincent van Gogh
âThe pine stays green in winter; wisdom is seeing that this is the nature of the pine.â
âWe are not human beings having a spiritual experience we are spiritual beings having a human experienceâ
â Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
âNothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wiselyâ
â Auguste Rodin
âA fall from the third floor hurts as much as a fall from the hundredth if I have to fall may I fall from a high placeâ
âThe wound is the place where the light enters youâ
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