Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters.

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"Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes."

- Jim Morrison

Balance

"There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first."

- Jim Morrison

Transformation

"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is."

- Jim Morrison

Relationships

"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free."

- Jim Morrison

Courage

"Let’s swim to the moon Let’s climb through the tide Surrender to the waiting worlds That lap against our side."

- Jim Morrison

Inspiration

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"The youth of this generation have a greater capacity for obedience than any previous generation."

- Elder David A. Bednar

Strength

"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

- Confucius

Strength

"The pain you feel today will show itself as strength tomorrow."

- Tunde Oyeneyin

Strength

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

- Mahatma Gandhi

Strength

"Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don’t to achieve what others won’t."

- Henry Rollins

Strength