No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

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"Even as I hold you, I am letting you go."

- Alice Walker

Love

"I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor its coming with all my heart."

- Alice Walker

Love

"I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart."

- Alice Walker

Love

"The more I wonder, the more I love."

- Alice Walker

Love

"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men."

- Alice Walker

Awareness

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"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

- Max DePree

Growth

"How marvelous is the generation with which you deal. We have never had a generation its equal in all of the history of the Church. They are better educated. They are more familiar with the scriptures. I believe they pray with a greater measure of faith, have a greater desire to do the will of the Lord, are more active in the Church, go into the world as better prepared missionaries, and live to become better parents."

- President Gordon B. Hinckley

Growth

"Allow yourself the opportunity to get uncomfortable."

- Alex Toussaint

Growth

"All growth starts at the end of your comfort zone."

- Tony Robbins

Growth

"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave."

- Mary Tyler Moore

Growth