We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.—Max de Pree
The things that make you strange are the things that make you powerful.—Ben Platt
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.—Nelson Mandela
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.—Albert Schweitzer
Feet on ground
Heart in hand
Facing forward
Be yourself
—Jann Arden, lyrics from “Good Mother”
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.—Helen Keller
If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.—Lao Tzu
With thanks to Diviya Lewis at Choose Gratitude for bringing my attention to this quote.
Be truthful, gentle and fearless.—Ghandi
All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.—J. R. R. Tolkien
