Your rising from bed every morning will give fear its chance to grow stronger just as it will afford faith its chance to blossom. You will make the choice to react to one or create the other.

文化的功能观点坚持这样的原则：在每一种文明类型中，每一种习俗、物质对象、观念和信仰都履行某种重要功能，完成某些任务，代表一个运作整体中不可或缺的部分。

In the wild, you have to trust your instincts. They are your best guide.

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

For as long as I can remember, Mom has been a middle-aged woman, but no one told me she used to be a young girl.