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Don’t aim to break the glass ceiling; aim to shatter it.

Don’t be afraid of criticism; the tallest trees are always confronted by the strongest winds.

Don't let what you thought you were yesterday keep you from becoming what you're meant to be today.

Don't let yesterday’s storm keep you from enjoying today's sunshine.

Encouragers turn mountains into molehills. Discouragers turn molehills into mountains.

Enough pain will keep you humble. Enough grief will keep you compassionate. Enough trouble will keep you strong. Enough hardship will keep you grateful.

Even when she's dethroned by hardship, she still wears the sun as a crown.

Everyone smiles in the same language, Happiness knows no frontiers, no age. No difference thar makes us feel apart if a smile can win even a broken heart.

Don’t resent the sky for its storms; esteem it for its rainbows.

Every seed must rise through dirt to enjoy the sunshine.

Fear will do one thing and one thing only: hold you back

Fear can only be mastered outside of your comfort zone.

Fear must die for your dreams to live.

For the first time in years, she felt a yearning for something different, something real. Something more than the life she had.

For me, those weeks in Boston, with Wilma, became a lesson in her ability to be “of good mind,” in her phrase, which also meant a people’s ability to survive.

Everything passes, but nothing entirely goes away.

God will only push you off a cliff if He's going to give you wings to fly.

Gravity is no match against one who is determined to reach the stars.

Guess what? “Someday” almost never comes around. It gets lost somewhere between the shouda, woulda, couldas of your life. Let go of whatever is holding you back and dare to live – boldly, bravely, and courageously - now. Remember, none of these elements mean you have to be fearless. It’s absolutely okay to be afraid! Acknowledge that part of yourself and then push beyond that fear, whatever it may be. I’m not brave. . . . I’m just taking every opportunity to LIVE.

Great winds only challenge great trees.

Harsh winters precede pleasant springs.

Heat makes things expand; that is why life sometimes throws us into a fiery furnace.

Hope is a better friend than despair.

I am a wife, mother, and friend, and soon to be grandmother, I still feel, understand, and am worthy of the love and joy in those relationships. I am still an active participant in society. My brain no longer works well, but I use my ears for unconditional listening, my shoulders for crying on, and my arms for hugging others with dementia. Through an early stage support group...by talking to you today, I am helping others with dementia live better with dementia. I am not someone dying. I am someone living with Alzheimer's. I want to do that as well as I possibly can.

I am a man that knows of the possibility of failure. I have suffered defeat. I have created miscalculations. I have even abandoned victory, and fallen in shame. I can claim my arrogance. I can claim my ignorance. I can claim my naiveté. However, the creation of those possibilities were simply due to a lack of understanding of who I was. I have conquered my Id. I have conquered my Ego. I have conquered my Spirituality. I am a man that knows of the possibility of failure, but because I have mastered the principles of nothing, possibility, and uncertainty, failure simply tags along with me, unable to grasp my glory.

How about when you feel as if you are at a treacherous crossing, facing an area of life that hasn’t even been on the map until recently. Suddenly there it is, right in front of you. And so the time and space in between while you first get over the shock of it, and you have to figure out WHAT must be done feels excruciating. It’s a nightmare you can’t awaken from. You might remember this time as a kind of personal D-day, as in damage, devastation, destruction, damnation, desolation – maybe a difficult divorce, or even diagnosis of some formidable disease. These are the days of our lives that whole, beautiful chapters of life go up in flames. And all you can do is watch them burn. Until you feel as though you are left only with the ashes of it all. It is at this moment you long for the rescue and relief that only time can provide. It is in this place, you must remember that in just 365 days – you're at least partially healed self will be vastly changed, likely for the better. Perhaps not too unlike a caterpillar’s unimaginable metamorphosis. Better. Stronger. Wiser. Tougher. Kinder. More fragile, more firm, all at the same time as more free. You will have gotten through the worst of it – somehow. And then it will all be different. Life will be different. You will be different. It might or might not ever make sense, but it will be more bearable than it seems when you are first thrown, with no warning, into the kilns of life with the heat stoked up – or when you get wrapped up, inexplicably, through no choice of your own, in a dark, painfully constricting space. Go ahead, remind yourself as someone did earlier, who was trying miserably to console you. It will eventually make you a better, stronger person. How’d they say it? More beautiful on the inside… It really will, though. That’s the kicker. Even if, in the hours of your agony, you would have preferred to be less beautiful, wise, strong, or experienced than apparently life, fate, your merciless ex, or a ruthless, biological, or natural enemy that has attacked silently, and invisibly - has in mind for you. As will that which your God feels you are capable of enduring, while you, in your pitiful anguish, are yet dubious of your own ability to even endure, not alone overcome. I assure you now, you will have joy and beauty, where there was once only ashes. In time. Perhaps even more than before. It’s so hard to imagine and believe it when it’s still fresh, and so, so painful. When it hurts too much to even stand, or think, or feel anything. When you are in the grip of fear, and you remember the old familiar foe, or finally understand, firsthand, in your bones, what that actually means.

I am not enough in myself; I can barely make it through buying milk and school supplies. Thank goodness there is a Guardian to come before me and throw off the dark.

If birds sing without worrying about who is listening to them, and monkeys dance without worrying about who is watching them, and hyenas laugh without worrying about who is mocking them, then you too must do what you do best without worrying about who is ridiculing you.

If a flower can flourish in the desert, you can flourish anywhere.

If an ant carries an object a hundred times its weight, you can carry burdens many times your size.

If Noah waited for signs of rain to build an ark, he would have been swept away by the flood.

If rocks did not persevere under heat and pressure, they would never become diamonds.

If roses did not suffer thorns on their journey to beauty, they would lose out on becoming masterpieces.

If seeds despaired in their darkest hours, they would never rise to enjoy their brightest days.

If seeds waited for perfect conditions to grow, there would be no plants in the desert.

If seeds saw dirt as their enemy, they would lose out on the opportunity to grow.

If stars avoided the dark, they would not be visible at night.

If the road to your dreams is full of potholes, take the highway.

If the sky never grew dark, we would not be able to clearly see the stars.

If the storm forgets to bring a rainbow, paint your own.

If the sky had no tears, the world would have no rainbows.

If you are going through hell, keep walking until you reach heaven.

If you fail a thousand times, find a thousand and one ways to succeed.

If you live in the desert, view the sun not as your enemy, but as your friend. If you live in the wilderness, view nature not as your adversary, but as your companion.

If you run a hundred miles in your heart, you are ready to run a hundred miles on your feet.

If you can stay positive in bad situations, you are strong; if you can stay optimistic in hopeless situations, you are mighty; if you can stay hopeful in impossible situations, you are great.

Ignore those who resent you. Avoid those who begrudge you. Excuse those who envy you. Pity those who hate you.

Ignore your haters. Resist your fears. Embrace your dreams.

I know it's possible to overcome even very big problems in life, to heal yourself and move on

If you think too much, you will worry too much; if you worry too much, you will fear too much; if you fear too much, you will dread too much; and if you dread too much, you will suffer too much.