It’s at the heart of everything we struggle with in life: longing to be valuable, to be accepted, to be prized, to be worth something to somebody, to have a life that matters, and God’s saying ‘You matter! I didn’t make anyone else like you. You’re not a reprint or a lithograph. You’re a one-of-a-kind, original creation of God.

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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

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Courage is a heart word. The root of the word courage is cor - the Latin word for heart. In one of its earliest forms, the word courage meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart." Over time, this definition has changed, and today, we typically associate courage with heroic and brave deeds. But in my opinion, this definition fails to recognize the inner strength and level of commitment required for us to actually speak honestly and openly about who we are and about our experiences -- good and bad. Speaking from our hearts is what I think of as "ordinary courage. — Brené Brown

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Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience. ― Roy T. Bennett

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When you walk in silence your excellence will always speak for you. ― Onyi Anyado

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Talking to you can make your brain to work efficiently and talking to others can make your heart to work efficiently ― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

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Maybe it's good we don't know what will happen next in our stories, because if we did, we might not turn the page. Or we might skip ahead and never experience the good that comes out of the hard moment we're living through ― Simone Biles

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It doesn’t take strength to win. It takes the true heart of the team to win. – Emily Voyles

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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

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The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy. ― Booker T. Washington

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