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“The strength of faith is inner serenity.”

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“You used to sit like this and tell me stories about my great-great-grandmother, the one who killed scorpions with her bare heels and slit the throats of the goats on Eid. You and Teta Badra before you and Teta's mother before her—my great-grandmother Wafaa, daughter of the scorpion-killer—you were the bearers of bravery in our family. You were the one who fought to save the neighborhood I'm now sneaking into to paint each night. But you failed to realize that America has only ever deemed certain heritages worth preserving.”

Women Family Strength Bravery Heritage

Book:The Thirty Names of Night

Source: The Thirty Names of Night

“There was a confidence in everything you did that I never learned to emulate, a belief in everything you loved, as though victory was secured, as though it wasn't a fool's errand to believe in justice.”

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Book:The Thirty Names of Night

Source: The Thirty Names of Night

“Just look at you. Heart broken but still beating. Arms empty but still open. Face raised to the sky and giving thanks for the light, even when it hurts your eyes. My God, you are beautiful.”

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Author:Jeanette LeBlanc

“All my life, used the best lotions, finest soaps, nicest oils, and fanciest perfumes to keep my skin nice, only to find out I need thick, hard skin to survive. Oh, the irony.”

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Author:Liz Faublas-Wallace

“Where, how & what we stand for speaks volumes more than our silences" Dilip”

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Book:Sambhaji

Source: Sambhaji

“He thought out for himself an ideal, and spent the whole of his life and all his strength in pursuing it.”

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Book:The story of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The story of Abraham Lincoln

“I look at a palm tree and see strength and perseverance. How else could this tree stand tall in such arid land?”

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Book:Tajrish

Source: Tajrish

“We shall all need the endurance of Dwarves. But come! With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter! We will make such as shall be accounted a marvel among the Three Kindreds: Elves, Dwarves, and Men. Forth the Three Hunters!”

Hope Strength Conviction

Book:The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Part 2) by Tolkien, J.R.R. (2 Rep Sub Edition) [Hardcover(1988)]

Source: The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Part 2) by Tolkien, J.R.R. (2 Rep Sub Edition) [Hardcover(1988)]

“You're a God here, Until you're not. and now you have the power, everyone is going to try and take it from you.”

Author:J. Bree

“That's right," said Gandalf. "Let's have no more argument. I have chosen Mr. Baggins and that ought to be enough for all of you. If I say he is a Burglar, a Burglar he is, or will be when the time comes. There is a lot more in him than you guess, and a deal more than he has any idea of himself. You may (possibly) all live to thank me yet.”

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Book:The Hobbit

Source: The Hobbit