"Look what you've already come through! Don't..." - Quote by Maya Angelou
Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. Say I'm stronger than I thought I was
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“No one knows what capacities for doing and suffering he has in himself, until something comes to rouse them to activity: just as in a pond of still water, lying there like a mirror, there is no sign of the roar and thunder with which it can leap from the precipice, and yet remain what it is; or again, rise high in the air as a fountain. When water is as cold as ice, you can have no idea of the latent warmth contained in it.”
“Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
“The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.”
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“To me the thought of oneself as low and humble is a sin and ignorance.”
“Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.”
“One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things-in the way that if one sets out to pick up a 100-pound bag of rice, one would be advised to start with a five-pound bag, then 10 pounds, then 20 pounds, and so forth, until one builds up enough muscle to lift the 100-pound bag. It's the same way with courage. You do small courageous things that require some mental and spiritual exertion.”