Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.

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"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?"

- Ernest J. Gaines

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"There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past."

- Ernest J. Gaines

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

- Max DePree

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"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

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"Allow yourself the opportunity to get uncomfortable."

- Alex Toussaint

Growth

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

- Tony Robbins

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"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

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