"Our mistakes don’t make or break us. If we are lucky, they simply reveal who we really are, what we’re made of. Challenges will come, but if you treat them simply as tests of who you are, you’ll come out of it not bitter and victimized, but smarter and stronger."

-- Donn Moomaw

#Mistake Quotes #Challenges Quotes #Stronger Quotes

“The designer must think first and work later.”
“A new generation of Christians is being called to help build a world in which God's gift of life is welcomed, respected and cherished-not rejected, feared as a threat and destroyed. A new age in which love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good, radiating joy and beauty - a new age in which hope liberates us from the shallowness, apathy and self-absorption that deaden our souls and poison our relationships.”

Source : Eucharistic Celebration On The Occasion Of The 23-rd World Youth Day, w2.vatican.va. July 20, 2008.
“My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.”
“When things start to get rough, you find comfort in your faith. Knowing that no matter what, you can dust yourself off and be okay.”
“I know that the dream mind is irrational, but I like to think that if I hear something in a dream that's really good, then it's irrational... but it's not crazy.”

Source : "Ted Leo and Ben Arthur Discuss Carly Simon, Joyce Carl Oates, and the Touring Grind". Interview with Ben Arthur, logger.believermag.com. June 26, 2016.
“I'm still an embryo with a long long way to go.”
“Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.”
“Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you.”

Source : Catherine Anderson (2009). “Comanche Heart”, p.193, Penguin

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