Inevitably, if we are to grow and change as adults, we must gradually learn to confront the challenges, paradoxes, problems and painful reality of an insecure world.
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I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure.
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You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided.
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A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness.
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You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.
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We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon
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