There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story.
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
- Topic: Diversity, Strength
- Location: Arches National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.
Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
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.
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.
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Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.
Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves . . . But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.
Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.