🌟 Words & Wonder

These are the quotes that lift us up, steady us, and remind us what courage looks like. Some are submitted by readers, others are family favorites—but all speak to the heart of this journey.

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• “Victory belongs to the most persevering.” — Napoleon Bonaparte
• “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” — Submitted anonymously
• “Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne
• “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” — Arthur Ashe
• “Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.” — Khalil Gibran
• “What does not kill us makes us stronger.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
• “Sometimes you have to let life turn you upside down so you can learn how to live right side up.” — Anonymous
• “Don’t be afraid to be great.” — Anonymous
• “Be the reason someone smiles today.” — Anonymous
• “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
• “A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” — Christopher Reeve
• “Hope makes the impossible possible... It gives us strength and courage and then hope grows.” — Lorna Byrne
• “Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.” — St. Francis de Sales

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