"You can’t rely on the past for everything." It came out so clearly that Korra actually surprised herself. Witnessing that she would lose contact with her past lives and knowing how that affected her left Korra with an appreciation to still have them now; but it also gave her a kind of strength to know that the connection wasn’t what made her the Avatar.

Her spirit alone was enough when she wasn’t anything else besides ‘just Korra’.

"Powers aren’t the only thing we’re going to win with." Optimism wasn’t ingrained in Korra, it was something she had to give herself when things took a turn for the worse. She was dead set on eliminating Malicant to save Konryu, and by proxy, all of the foreigner’s homes too. "We can do this."