“The storms in our lives have a purpose. My journey through depression made me stronger. No matter your storm, it never rains forever.” Ginger Zee November 2011 – New York City: Two weeks before she began her dream job as a meteorologist on ABC’s Good Morning...
“It only took a minute for someone to look at an evaluation and categorize me as someone who couldn’t learn. And I believed them. It took another minute for someone to tell me different. Thankfully, I believed them, too.” Les Brown 1957 – Liberty City,...
“Always believe that there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. Believe that you may be that light for someone else.” Kobe Yamada October 1961 – West Berlin, Germany: Joachim Rudolph, a 22-year-old West Berlin...
“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.” Bernice Johnson Reagon 1893 – Midway Hotel – Kearney, Nebraska: Shortly before sunrise, hotel proprietor Orison Marden awoke to...
“Nothing is impossible to the determined woman.” Louisa May Alcott 1860 – Concord, Massachusetts: The Atlantic magazine editor, James Lowell had published a couple of short stories by 27-year-old schoolteacher Louisa May Alcott. He liked her writing. But a year...
“I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.” Marie Curie 1885 – Warsaw, Poland. “Papa, it’s not fair,” cried Marie. “I am smarter than all the boys in my class. I graduated at the top of my class, but there is no need to apply to the University...
