Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.

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"Nobody is a villain in their own story. We’re all the heroes of our own stories."

- George R. R. Martin

Awareness

"A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep."

- George R. R. Martin

Self-awareness

"When you play the game of thrones you win or you die."

- George R. R. Martin

Courage

"That night the wind was howling almost like a wolf and there were some real wolves off to the west giving it lessons."

- George R. R. Martin

Inspiration

"When the Sun has set, no candle can replace it."

- George R. R. Martin

Reflection

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"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

Adversity

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

Adversity

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Adversity

"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

Adversity

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

Adversity