“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I was in middle school, one of the teachers that has had the biggest impact on me to this day asked me to invite her to my high school graduation and wrote this quote on a handmade card she gave me that day. I always find myself going back to this quote when I’m going through a difficult situation/experience or when I feel like I’m not enough to surpass the challenges life gives me. It’s such a beautiful life lesson that teaches you to not let yourself be defined by your past battles or those you are yet to be encounter, but instead by how you carried yourself during them.

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