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Quotes...

• “To be heroic may mean nothing more than this then, to stand in the face of the status quo, in the face of an easy collapse into the madness of an increasingly chaotic world and represent another way.” – Mike Alsford
  
• “Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.” - Ursula K. Le Guin
• “Every person is a world to explore.” – Thich Nhat Hahn
• "No one is you and that is your power." - Dave Grohl
• “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” – Paulo Coelho
• "Courage is born of adversity" - SweetFrau
• “If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.” - Masaru Emoto
• "The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference." - Audre Lorde
• “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
  – Harriet Tubman
• “Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.” – Erich Fromm
• "Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness." - Anne Frank
• “A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway.“ – Christopher Reeve
• “Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. the world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.”
  - Marianne Williamson
• “Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucious
• Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
  – Henry David Thoreau
•  “You’re going to make a difference. A lot of times it won’t be huge, it won’t be visible even. But it will matter just the same.” – James Gordon
• “Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.” – Hans Christen Andersen
• “Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”
  - Walt Whitman
• "Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones."- Thich Nhat Hanh
• “To be heroic does not have to mean possessing the ability to stand against the evils of the world, either well or successfully, but just that one is willing to stand.” - Mike Alsford
• “You cannot be a hero without being a coward.” - George Bernard Shaw
• Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.”
  - Ray Bradbury
• “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” - Anais Nin
• “Fall seven times and stand up eight.” - Japanese Proverb
• “To be heroic does not have to mean possessing the ability to stand against the evils of the world, either well or successfully, but just that one is willing to stand.” - Mike Alsford
• “Most of us are cut from the same cloth. We all can be a hero if we choose. And it just isn't that hard.” - Robin S. Sharma
• “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. 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?”- Marianne Williamson
• “Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.” - Teddy Roosevelt
• “It is both the greatest power and potentially the greatest weakness of the hero to love and care and strive beyond reason. The hero is the one who turns back and waits for their injured friend knowing the hordes of the enemy are close on their heals, the one who stands alone on the bridge barring the progress of an overwhelming foe in order to allow their companions time to escape, the one who refuses to take one innocent life as a means to saving thousands. The hero is the one who returns to an alien infested space ship, set to self-destruct in minutes, to save the cat.” - Mike Alsford
• "Something will grow from all you are going through. And it will be you."
  - Steve Maraboli
• "Vulnerability is not weakness, and the uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure we face every day are not optional. Our only choice is a question of engagement. Our willingness to own and engage with our vulnerability determines the depth of our courage and the clarity of our purpose; the level to which we protect ourselves from being vulnerable is a measure of our fear and disconnection." - Brené Brown
• “When you learn to nurture and love yourself as you would another. When you give yourself that attention, things change very fast. Things move in you.” - Lee Harris

SUPERHEROS

• “You are much stronger than you think you are. Trust me” – Superman
•  “Heroes are made by the path they choose, not the powers they are graced with.”
  – Iron Man

DR. SEUSS

• “You have brains in your head, you have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…” – Dr. Seuss
• “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss

BUDDHA (Siddhartha Gautama)

• We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. - Buddha
• No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. - Buddha
• You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection. - Buddha
• What we think, we become. - Buddha

Poems...
Preface to the Leaves of Grass
This is what you shall do;
Love the earth and sun and the animals,
despise riches,
give alms to every one that asks,
stand up for the stupid and crazy,
devote your income and labor to others,
hate tyrants,
argue not concerning God,
have patience and indulgence toward the people,
take off your hat to nothing known or unknown
or to any man or number of men,
go freely with powerful uneducated persons
and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air
every season of every year of your life,
re-examine all you have been told at school
or church or in any book,
dismiss whatever insults your own soul,
and your very flesh shall be a great poem
and have the richest fluency not only in its words
but in the silent lines of its lips and face
and between the lashes of your eyes
and in every motion and joint of your body.
- Walt Whitman

“You have brains in your head, you have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know.
And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…”

Quote by Dr. Suess