Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

-Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)

Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigantic courage and strength…..

-Virginia Wolff

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.

-Noam Chomsky

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness, in a descending spiral of destruction. The chain reaction of evil must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

–Maya Angelou

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face… we must do that which we think we cannot.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

–Anais Nin

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