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“We will outstretch the hand if you unclench your fist.”
— Barack Obama
“The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.”
— Les Brown
“Freedom itself demands discomfort.”
— Mark Manson
“Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.”
— Gustave Flaubert
“Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go over to a little baby and say 'What are you doing here? You haven't worked a day in your life!'”
— Steven Wright
“I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Never trust he who trusts everyone.”
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“Love yourself with the same intensity you would use to pull yourself up if you were hanging off a cliff.”
— Kamal Ravikant
“Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted. ”
— Denis Waitley
“Do not use life to give life to death. Do not use death to bring death to life.”
— Zhuangzi
“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.”
— Michael Jordan
“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“The real art in learning takes place as we move beyond proficiency, when our work becomes an expression of our essence.”
— Josh Waitzkin
“Imagination is the beginning of creation.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“Redemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.”
— Tom Petty
“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”
— George S. Patton
“The river that flows in you also flows in me.”
— Kabir
“Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always comes around to where you started again.”
— Stephen King
“Authenticity is not something we have or don't have. It’s a practice—a conscious choice of how we want to live.”
— Brené Brown
“When you get up in the morning, you have two choices - either to be happy or to be unhappy. Just choose to be happy.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
“To live is to be willing to die over and over again.”
— Pema Chodron
“If you see someone without a smile give them one of yours.”
— Unknown

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