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Daily Inspiration Quote by Lisa Bonet

"Everyone has their story. Everyone has issues. You have to face your fears"

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Bonet’s line lands like a quiet corrective to the culture of curated perfection. “Everyone has their story” isn’t a kumbaya slogan so much as a refusal to let any one person’s pain claim special authority. In three short beats, she flattens the hierarchy of hardship: stories, issues, fears. The repetition of “Everyone” does the heavy lifting, widening the frame beyond celebrity confession or personal-brand vulnerability. It’s an insistence on commonality without sliding into sentimentality.

The subtext is practical, almost protective. As an actress who’s lived in the long shadow of public projection - the industry’s habit of turning women into symbols, muses, scandals - Bonet sidesteps the trap of making trauma into performance. “Issues” is deliberately plain, even slightly blunt: not a poetic wound, not a trending diagnosis, just the messy inventory people carry. That casualness keeps the focus on responsibility rather than spectacle.

Then she pivots from empathy to agency: “You have to face your fears.” The second-person “you” is a nudge, not a sermon. It suggests that understanding the universality of struggle isn’t meant to excuse avoidance; it’s meant to remove the alibi of isolation. If everyone has issues, then fear isn’t a personal defect - but confronting it is still the job. The intent reads less like inspiration and more like a grounded, grown-up ethic: compassion for what people carry, firmness about what they do with it.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Bonet, Lisa. (2026, January 16). Everyone has their story. Everyone has issues. You have to face your fears. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/everyone-has-their-story-everyone-has-issues-you-135707/

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Bonet, Lisa. "Everyone has their story. Everyone has issues. You have to face your fears." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/everyone-has-their-story-everyone-has-issues-you-135707/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Everyone has their story. Everyone has issues. You have to face your fears." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/everyone-has-their-story-everyone-has-issues-you-135707/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Lisa Bonet

Lisa Bonet (born November 16, 1967) is a Actress from USA.

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