Erika E. Brown

“What makes us the best? I tend to think it's the struggle. It's the choice to face a challenge head-on instead of turning our backs to it. It isn't solely about physical strength or bravado. It's about endurance. And by this, I mean mental endurance- the ability to endure whatever life throws at you, to keep going no matter how hard it gets.”
― Evy Poumpouras, Becoming Bulletproof: Life Lessons from a Secret Service Agent

“To love and be loved is more than can ever be expected, more than enough for a thousand ordinary lifetimes.”
― Chris Whitaker

“When people sometimes ask me how "I got here," I have to smile. It was a zigzagging, dotted, sometimes broken line, with pauses and detours and disasters. Beginnings that ended too soon. Endings that turned out to be beginnings.”
― Savannah Guthrie, Mostly What God Does Is Love You

“In Philippians 4:8–9, the apostle Paul writes, “Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.” In these three sentences Paul moves from thought (“think about such things”) to action (“put it into practice”) to experience (“the God of peace will be with you”).”
― Craig Groeschel, Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life