Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It’s not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
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| — | couch carter |
we are not enemies, but friends. we must not be enemies. though passion may ha ve strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. the mystic chords of memories will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
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| — | american history X |
