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The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela
Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.
Yoda
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.
Pema Chödrön
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
Fear is the thief of dreams.
Brian Krans
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
William James
The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
Mark Zuckerberg
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Wayne Gretzky
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.
Elizabeth Edwards
The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.
Robert Jordan
The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.
Jodi Picoult
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
Maya Angelou
The only true test of courage is not the willingness to die, but the willingness to live.
Vittorio Alfieri
Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.
Natalie Goldberg
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Ernest Hemingway
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
Benjamin Spock
The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.
Gisele Bundchen
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people.
Stephen Covey
Surrender to what is. Let go of what was. Have faith in what will be.
Sonia Ricotti
Surrender is not giving up or saying that you are weak. It is a courageous act of faith.
Deborah Adele
Surrender is the most difficult thing in the world while you are doing it and the easiest when it is done.
Bhai Sahib
Surrender is the ultimate sign of strength and the foundation for a spiritual life.
Eckhart Tolle
Surrender is the path to freedom through our deepest fears.
Marianne Williamson
Surrender is the key to unlocking the fullness of life.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Surrender is the act of letting go of control and trusting the universe to guide you.
Gabrielle Bernstein
Surrender is the doorway to the divine.
Mooji
Surrender is not a weakness, it is a strength. It takes tremendous strength to surrender life to the supreme - to the cosmic unfolding.
Amit Ray
Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change.
Brené Brown
Vulnerability is the only authentic state. Being vulnerable means being open, for wounding, but also for pleasure.
Natalie Goldberg
Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome.
Brené Brown
The willingness to show up changes us. It makes us a little braver each time.
Brené Brown
Vulnerability is the key to resilience, and resilience is the foundation of courage.
Mark Manson
Vulnerability is the path to intimacy and connection.
Sheryl Sandberg
Vulnerability is the most accurate measurement of courage.
Brené Brown
Vulnerability is the only way to truly connect with another human being.
Katherine Woodward Thomas
Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity.
Brené Brown
Compassion is the ultimate and most meaningful embodiment of emotional maturity. It is through compassion that a person achieves the highest peak and the deepest reach in his or her search for self-fulfillment.
Arthur Jersild
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest gift you can give someone is your own personal development. I used to say, 'If you will take care of me, I will take care of you.' Now I say, 'I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me.'
Jim Rohn
Compassion is the basis of all morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Albert Schweitzer
Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
Thomas Merton
The only way to change the world is to change the story. To change the story, you have to first change the conversation. To change the conversation, you have to first change the questions.
Michael Margolis
Compassion is not a virtue -- it is a commitment. It's not something we have or don't have -- it's something we choose to practice.
Brené Brown
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Peter Drucker
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher
Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.
Amy Collette
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
Zig Ziglar
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
Henry Van Dyke
Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
Gratitude is the attitude that sets the altitude of life.
Israelmore Ayivor
Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
Michael Novak
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
Love is not a mere sentiment. Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
Rabindranath Tagore
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Love is the bridge between you and everything.
Rumi
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.
E.E. Cummings
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Helen Keller
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.
Max Lucado
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore
Faith is the art of holding on to things in spite of your changing moods and circumstances.
C.S. Lewis
Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see.
William Newton Clarke
Faith is the strength that enables us to step forward even when we don't see the whole staircase.
Unknown
Faith is the light that guides you through the darkness.
Unknown
Faith is the foundation of all hope and the evidence of things unseen.
Unknown
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Marcus Aurelius
Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
Christian D. Larson
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
Eleanor Roosevelt
The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
Rumi
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
Walter Elliot
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Newt Gingrich
Perseverance is the master impulse of the firmest souls, the discipline of the noblest virtues.
William Ellery Channing
Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances - it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.
Elizabeth George
Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of discovery - there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.
Rick Warren
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein
The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself that you can't achieve it.
Jordan Belfort
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
Dag Hammarskjold
Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it.
Gandhi
Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
Marianne Williamson
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