Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
~ Truman Capote
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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
~Arthur Christopher Benson
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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
~Henry Ford
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The difference between a successful person and others is not lack of strength not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will.
~Vince Lombardi
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To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live.
~Dorothy West
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Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.
~Steve Jobs
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The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
~Helen Keller
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There is no greater journey than the one that you must take to discover all of the mysteries that lie within you.
~Michelle Sandlin
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
~Epicurus
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Everyone needs a place where they can go to just ponder for a while. Silence is important; it’s the only time you can hear the whispering of truth.
~Glenn Beck
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Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
~Michelle Obama
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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
~Oscar Wilde
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Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.
~Italian proverb
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Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.
~C.S. Lewis
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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
~Lao Tzu
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You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
~Stephen King
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You can always give something, even if it is only kindness.
~Anne Frank
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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
~Dale Carnegie
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The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
~Winston Churchill
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Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.
~Walt Whitman
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Do not let arrogance go to your head and despair to your heart; do not let compliments go to your head and criticisms to your heart; do not let success go to your head and failure to your heart.
~Roy T. Bennett
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If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and to begin again.
~Flavia Weedn
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Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.
~Jack Canfield
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Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.
~Steve Jobs
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If you have wonderful moments, don’t second guess them. Just enjoy them.
~Martin Short
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Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.
~Harvey Fierstein
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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
~C.S. Lewis
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Your heart is a vast and tender thing; you cannot keep trying to shrink it into what someone else needs. You cannot keep pouring your love into a vessel that cannot contain it. You cannot keep pouring your love into a heart that is closed off to it. It will only leave you empty.
~Bianca Sparacino
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The deepest cuts come from those we love the most.
~Mario Escobar, The Teacher of Warsaw
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Knowing is better than wondering, waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure—even the worst—beats the hell out of not trying.
~Meredith Grey, Grey’s Anatomy
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The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.
~Rick Warren
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Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
~Mother Teresa
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You make mistakes, mistakes don’t make you.
~Maxwell Maltz
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
~Marcus Aurelius
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Life is short. Focus on what really matters most. You have to change your priorities over time.
~Roy T. Bennett
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It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.
~Vincent Van Gogh
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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
~Lao Tzu
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The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.
~Abigail Van Buren
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When you get to the end of all the light you know and it’s time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.
~Edward Teller
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Most times, even if giving your heart away ends in heartbreak, the risk was still worth it. Sometimes, that risk gives you little miracles. and sometimes, that risk gives you life lessons that allow you to grow and learn more about yourself.
~Max Monroe
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There are three things you can do with your life: You can waste it, you can spend it, or you can invest it. The best use of your life is to invest it in something that will last longer than your time on Earth.
~Rick Warren
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When people don’t express themselves, they die one piece at a time.
~Laurie Halse Anderson
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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
~Lao Tzu
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Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.
~Paulo Coelho
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Not everything is supposed to become something beautiful and long-lasting. Sometimes people come into your life to show you what is right and what is wrong, to show you who you can be, to teach you to love yourself, to make you feel better for a little while, or to just be someone to walk with at night and spill your life to. Not everyone is going to stay forever, and we still have to keep on going and thank them for what they’ve given us.
~Emery Allen
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Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.
Roy. T. Bennett
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You can get away from envy by enjoying the pleasures that come your way, by doing the work that you have to do, and by avoiding comparisons with those whom you imagine, perhaps quite falsely, to be more fortunate than yourself.
~Bertrand Russell
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There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.
Laurell K. Hamilton
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No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you’ve already had.
~Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement – no matter how temporary.
~Craig Thompson