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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - January 15, 2021
Wanting to be someone you're not is a waste of the person you are.
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Kurt Cobain (1967 - 1994)  
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
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Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)  
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)  
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?
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Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991  
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