The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there.

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"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new."

- Ursula K. Le Guin

Love

"Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new."

- Ursula K. Le Guin

Love

"Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not."

- Ursula K. Le Guin

Awareness

"Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them."

- Ursula K. Le Guin

Courage

"As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul."

- Ursula K. Le Guin

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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