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Here's a message to the new borns, waiting to breathe: if you believe then you can achieve. Just look at me, against all odds 'though life is hard, we carry on, livin' in the projects, broke with no lights on. To all the seeds that follow me- protect your essence, born with less, but you still precious.: Tupac Shakur, Smile
The ancestor of every action is a thought.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.: Allegra Kent, Once a Dancer…
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You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.: Gavin McDonald, Scottish Bicyclist, 04-15-2006
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
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I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose…though not always what I pleased.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), Song of the Open Road
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart.: Marion Wink, O Magazine, 2003
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Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Twelfth Night'
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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.: Benjamin Haydon
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.: Simone de Beauvoir
We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Rules are just helpful guidelines for stupid people who can't make up their own minds.: Seth Hoffman, House M.D., 2010
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The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.: Garry Marshall, 'Wake Me When It's Funny'
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.: George Washington (1732 - 1799)
I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found. There is not a "fragment" in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf, 1916
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