There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you’ve grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness.

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"This too shall pass away."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Hope

"No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Resilience

"'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Resilience

"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Leadership

"Whatever is… is best."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Faith

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