"Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions." - Shannon L. Alder
"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater." JRR Tolkien
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” - Barack Obama
“Women belong in all places where decisions are being made.” - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant”. —Victor Frankl
“The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.”
― Ryan Holiday, The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage
"Family dysfunction rolls down from generation to generation, like a fire in the woods, taking down everything in its path until one person in one generation has the courage to turn and face the flames. That person brings peace to their ancestors and spares the children that follow." - Terry Real
"The price of light is less than the cost of darkness." - A.C. Nielsen
"And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it, and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her." JRR Tolkien
“The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times . . . The best moments usually occur if a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.” (Csikszentmihalyi, 1990)
"His grief he will not forget, but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom." JRR Tolkien