1- I find this quote so empowering and it gives me goosebumps every time I read it. I heard it for the first time in 9th grade and I have regarded it as my hands down favorite ever since. The girl that gave me this quote talked about it in reference to Nelson Mandela's innaguration speech. The actual quote, by most accounts (98%) is that it's by Marianne Williamson.
"Our Deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond mearsure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightening in shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, its in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." -Marianne Williamson
The rest of the quotes are not necessarily in order. I love them all and they switch orders a lot. But, for now...
2- I don't remember when I decided that this is how I would live my life but, it has been within the last 2-3 months. I have come to the conclusion that there are some things-namely the nature of human character- that I will choose to believe in because it is something that is worth believing in.
"Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things that a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love... true love never dies. You remember that, boy. You remember that. Doesn't matter if it's true or not. You see a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in." -Hub on Secondhand Lions
3-This one I actually have memorized
"Things will work out. Keep trying. Be believing. Don't get discouraged. Things will work out" -President Gordon B. Hinckley
4- I don't remember when I started quoting this but, then I found it and I thought "oh cool, I wasn't the one that thought of that"
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid sould who know neither victory nor defeat." -Theodore Roosevelt
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