Grace is something you can never get but can only be given. There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about anymore than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks. A good night's sleep is grace and so are good dreams. Most tears are grace. The smell of rain is grace. Somebody loving you is grace. _ Frederick Buechner

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Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing. ― Emma Donoghue

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Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return. ― Leigh Bardugo

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I am happy. I have something to accomplish, create, and achieve. I am happy. – Vera Nazarian

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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. ― Plato

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Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude. ― Lou Holtz

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Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.

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May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

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The triumph can't be had without the struggle. And I know what struggle is. I have spent a lifetime trying to share what it has meant to be a woman first in the world of sports so that other young women have a chance to reach their dreams.

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