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Be ready – Be strong – Be better

You will never know how strong you are or how strong you can be until you lose something or something you really care about.  Adversity can bring out the best or worst in us.

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QUOTE & POSTER: You will never know How strong you are or How strong you can be Until you lose something You really care about. Adversity will bring out the best or worst in you. Be ready. Be strong. Be better.

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QUOTE & POSTER: In the natural order of the world, suffering is random. Bad things happen to good people just about as often as they happen to bad people. We have not been given a shield protecting us from misfortune, but there is within all of us waiting to be discovered, the strength to deal with adversity, to overcome it, and learn from it so we can still find love, laughter and joy despite it. You Have All You Need -Michael Josephson

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WORTH SEEING: Poster – “You will never know how strong you are or how strong you can be until you lose something you really care about.”

Adversity will come and it will bring out the best or worst in you. Be ready.  Be strong.  Be better.  

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OBSERVATION: When bad things happen to you don’t make things worse.

In the natural order of the world, bad things happen randomly. They happen to good people and bad people.  When bad things happen to you don’t make things worse by starting to see yourself as a victim, or someone who doesn’t deserve better, or a bad person who deserves what you got. None of these things are true! What happens …

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WORTH SEEING: Michael Josephson’s HOPE Quartet: Hang On, Pain Ends

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QUOTE: The light at the end of the tunnel is your life; it’s the tunnel that’s temporary. — Michael Josephson

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