To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

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"We can love what we are, without hating what, and who, we are not."

- Kofi Annan

Love

"No single solution or actor can deal with the complex and interrelated challenges to electoral integrity arising from manipulated data, hate speech, and fake news. These phenomena are not new; they have been part of electoral cycles since the advent of democracy."

- Kofi Annan

Awareness

"There is no trust more sacred than the one the world holds with children."

- Kofi Annan

Respect

"We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race."

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Connection to Earth

"Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope."

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Empowerment

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"Because God has given you your agency, you can choose many directions to go and still lead a fulfilling life. Mortality is an open-ended, choose-your-own-adventure story. You have commandments, you have covenants, you have inspired prophetic counsel, and you have the gift of the Holy Ghost. That is more than enough to lead you to mortal happiness and eternal joy."

- Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Choice

"More is lost by indecision than wrong decision."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Choice

"If you begin to regret, you’ll dull your future decisions and let others make your choices for you. All that’s left for you then is to die. Nobody can foretell the outcome. Each decision you make holds meaning only by affecting your next decision."

- Erwin Smith

Choice

"It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

- J.K. Rowling

Choice

"Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever you were gonna do anyway."

- Robert Downey Jr.

Choice