“When my mother told me that I was dyslexic it was both a gift and a bit of a cross to bear, but she tried to make me feel like it was something special and I was going to be great with it.” Orlando Bloom

“You can be extremely bright and still have dyslexia. You just have to understand how you learn and how you process information. When you know that, you can overcome a lot of the obstacles that come with dyslexia.” Tim Tebow

“Suddenly a lot of my insecurities, I was no longer insecure about. There was a time where reading a word incorrectly aloud would have destroyed me. But having that understanding of why I do that built my confidence.” Josh Clark, on discovering his dyslexia

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” Kahlil Gibran

“Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.” Oprah Winfrey

“The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes it seems as though there aren’t any other kind and yet I found myself thinking how beautiful that glint of water was through the trees.” Octavia E. Butler

“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.” Confucius

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” Robert Collier

“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” Vincent Van Gogh