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If they don’t need you , it's okay. You do not live for other people.

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The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

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The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.

Ayn Rand

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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude

Maya Angelou 

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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Maya Angelou

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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Mae West

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Robert Fulghum, All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten 

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Do not expect people to tell you the truth because they also lie to themselves.

Don Miguel Ruiz,The Four Agreements (via wordsnquotes)

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Don’t ever let somebody tell you you can’t do something, not even me. Alright? You dream, you gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you you can’t do it. If you want something, go get it. Period.

The Pursuit of Happiness

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It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Babe Ruth 

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Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being 

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What you see and hear depends a great deal on where you are standing.

C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew (via wordsnquotes)

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Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.

Nelson Mandela

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Always remember the acronym for "FEAR" can mean one of two things: Fuck Everything And Run or Face Everything And Recover

Cupcake Brown, A Piece of Cake

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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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But that's life. That's what you learn from; when things happen. Especially at your age. You just have to take it in and remember to think afterwards and not forget and never grow bitter.

Per Petterson, Out Stealing Horses 

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The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come

Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook