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and then I wondered if having faith in yourself was just deciding you could do it—whatever it was—and then making yourself follow through.
“You can’t control the world—or other people. You can’t make them love you, either. They will or they won’t, and that’s the truth. But what you can do is decide who you want to be in the face of it all. Do you want to be a person who helps—or hurts? Do you want to be a person who burns with anger—or shines with compassion? Do you want to be hopeful or hopeless? Give up or keep going? Live or die?�
Maybe love isn’t a judgment you render—but a chance you take. Maybe it’s something you choose to do—over and over.
The people we love help teach us who we are. The best versions of who we are, if we’re lucky.