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For M & B. Should you ever get to read this, to remind you that when life offers you a challenge: rise to the occasion. ↗

— Hope Barrett

#dedication #forget-heels #hope-barrett #inspire #inspirational

Again, I shall be told that the law presumes the husband to be kind, affectionate, and ready to provide for and protect his wife. But what right, I ask, has the law to presume at all on the subject? ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#again #ask #be kind #his #husband

In life, you will always be faced with a series of God-ordained opportunities brilliantly disguised as problems and challenges. ↗

— Charles Udall

#god #inspirational #life #opportunity #problems

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#corruption #duty #youth

At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you. ↗

— Criss Jami

#argumentation #avoidance #challenge #challenger #contempt

The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#hallucination #honesty #world #forgiveness

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#difficulty #inspirational #learning #science #value

A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it. ↗

— Ray Davis

#inspiration #motivation #overcoming #inspirational

We are the environment. The world is literally one biological process. The trees are our lungs. Look at the Amazon River system next to a human cardiovascular system, look at corals or trees and look at our lungs, you literally cannot tell the difference. They’re the same. So when we destroy our environment, we’re effectively destroying ourselves. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#ian-somerhalder #inspiring #thoughtful #inspirational

People rise to the occasion without hesitation when they feel inspired and challenged. ↗

— Lorii Myers

#inspiration #no-excuse #inspirational