Two sentences have carried the speaker through tough times: "there is always a way" when facing impossible problems, and "this too shall pass" when enduring hardship. The first pushes you to find solutions despite doubt. The second reminds you that difficulty is temporary.
I've tried to build many difficult things in my life where people were telling me it's impossible, it's never going to happen, who do you think you are? But I carried 2 sentences with me all along. The first one is, there is always a way. There is a way through this. There is a way that I can find out how to navigate. How do I— how can I solve what I'm trying to solve for? And then at times when I had a hard time believing in, in that sentence, I reminded myself the old adage of this too shall pass, right? So whatever I'm going through, whatever was happening, I knew that at some point it was going to be over and I would have gone through to the other side. I may not have succeeded in the way that I wanted to, but certainly the hardship that I was going through was going to have been a moment that passed.
