I had to remind myself of the truth of who I was and the reality that success wasn’t defined by a result but by faithfulness. I had to remember that my identity and healing weren’t dependent on the voices that surrounded me and that the truth wasn’t dependent on popular opinion or cultural responses. I had to focus on what was real and true. The straight line instead of the crooked. — Rachael Denhollander

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Find purpose. The means will follow.

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May you always be the one / Who notices the little things / That make the light pour through / And may they always remind you/ There is more to life and there is more to you. — Morgan Harper Nichols

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I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand.

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The purpose of life is life.

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When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose; it is this purposefulness, which belongs to the adult mind, that we force upon school children. We say, “Never keep your mind alert.

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Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it. ― George Carlin

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There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.

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An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.- Oscar Wilde

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Your true purpose is to become your own unique self, and to do so with happiness and freedom from fear. ― Bryant McGill

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