Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out. ― Katherine Dunham

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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Laozi

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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

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Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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When 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 afraid. ― Audre Lorde

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful. — Mark Victor Hansen

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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. — E.E. Cummings

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When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.

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Exploration of the natural world begins in early childhood, flourishes in middle childhood, and continues in adolescence as a pleasure and a source of strength for social action. — David Sobel

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