What Makes You Strong Quote

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“Embracing that which makes you different,is what makes you most powerful and strong?”This quote by Darren Criss is good to live by because it is beneficial to people.Another way of phrasing this quote to help better understand it is that people gain strength when embracing what makes them unique.This quote is appealing because what other people may conceive as a weakness is actually what gives you strength.Today,people in society admire stories of triumph and overcoming obstacles.These stories may be seen initially as a weakness,but it is actually something that should be looked at as a strength.In this story their will be examples of people with differences overcoming obstacles.All these examples connect back to the quote.

This quote is really good to remember because it tells people that overcoming any differences they

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