o “Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you…yet, someone survived…You can do anything you choose to do.” Maya Angelou

o “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” Charles Darwin

o “Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.” Pablo Casals

o “Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” Steve Maraboli

o “The human capacity for burden is like bamboo: far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.” Jodi Picoult

o “Never say that you can’t do something, or that something seems impossible, or that something can’t be done, no matter how discouraging or harrowing it may be; human beings are limited only by what we allow ourselves to be limited by: our own minds. We are each the masters of our own reality; when we become self-aware to this: absolutely anything in the world is possible.

o Master yourself, and become king of the world around you. Let no odds, chastisement, exile, doubt, fear, or ANY mental virus prevent you from accomplishing your dreams. Never be a victim of life; be its conqueror.” Mike Norton

o “‎Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else.” Henry Ward Beecher

o “My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me.” Paula McLain

o “No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That’s the only way to keep the roads clear.” Greg Kincaid

o “The journey is the destination.” Dan Eldon

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