It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that things are difficult.

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"If you wished to be loved, love."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Love

"Love in its essence is spiritual fire."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Love

"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Compassion

"For it would then be true friendship, such as no hope, no fear, no self-interest can sever. That is a friendship that stays with people until they die—and that people die for."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Compassion

"Wherever there is a human being, there is the opportunity for a kindness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Compassion

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"The greatest strength lies in vulnerability."

- Beauty and the Beast

Courage

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

Courage

"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."

- Tracee Ellis Ross

Courage

"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough."

- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Courage

"Courage, dear heart."

- C.S. Lewis

Courage