Native Strength Quotes

“Fear can paralyze or motivate. It is our choice.”
― Hyapatia Lee, Native Strength: The First Step on the Path to an Indomitable Life

“Our pain has prompted our growth.”
― Hyapatia Lee, Native Strength: The First Step on the Path to an Indomitable Life

“if we never have heartache and sadness our capacity to experience the full depths of joy and elation are diminished.”
― Hyapatia Lee, Native Strength: The First Step on the Path to an Indomitable Life

“If caregivers never allow children to go through the trial and error of learning to feed themselves, the caregivers have done them a disservice. Such children will never learn. Such children will never feel the joy of providing for their own needs. Such children will never grow to their full potential.”
― Hyapatia Lee, Native Strength: The First Step on the Path to an Indomitable Life

“As always, the focus has to be on our actions and not the actions of others. We have no control over anyone else.”
― Hyapatia Lee, Native Strength: The First Step on the Path to an Indomitable Life

“It is so much easier to say our actions are reactions to how we have been treated. We are who we are because we were raised in such a way. That is true only to the point of independent thinking. Once we reach the age when we can make decisions for ourselves, it is we who decide who we will be and what we will do.”
― Hyapatia Lee, Native Strength: The First Step on the Path to an Indomitable Life

“There is no one who can take away our inner turmoil, but there is also no one who can take away our inner peace.”
― Hyapatia Lee, Native Strength: The First Step on the Path to an Indomitable Life