Remember your personal demons should be afraid of you, because you are their home, their food, and as you heal, their executioner.
Interpretation
Embrace your inner struggles and confront them, as overcoming them empowers you.
This quote emphasizes the idea that personal challenges and inner demons are not just obstacles, but they derive their strength from the individual. By healing and growing stronger, one can transform their fears into a source of power, ultimately becoming the force that drives away the very demons that once threatened them.
In practice
During a motivational speech about mental health, this quote can inspire others to confront their struggles.
You cannot die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be glad in a world where my father is no more. And then you cry fresh tears, because you do not miss him as much as you once did, and giving up your grief is another kind of death.
My weakness, that is, my quadriplegia, is my greatest asset because it forces me into the arms of Christ every single morning when I get up.
Never depart from the way of martial arts.
Simply having the courage to say senseless things made me euphoric. I was free, with no need to seek or to give explanations for what I was doing. This freedom lifted me to the heavens - where greater love, one that forgives everything and never allows you to feel abandoned, once again enveloped me.
I was really embarrassed. And I asked why they took my picture when I was in such agony, and I'm the girl, in the moment that I was naked, burning, hopeless, crying - so ugly. And I asked why they took my picture at that that moment? I didn't like it at all.
If none of us ever read a book that was "dangerous," had a friend who was "different," or joined an organization that advocated "change," we would all be the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants.
The war we have to wage today has only one goal, and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
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