I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious effort. — Henry David Thoreau

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The uglier the caterpillar the lovelier the butterfly. ― Matshona Dhliwayo

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One must be something to do something. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. — Charles Kettering

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You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.

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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. — Arnold Bennett

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We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. ― Maya Angelou

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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. ― Robert Louis Stevenson

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Now I’m floating like a butterfly Stinging like a bee I earned my stripes I went from zero, to my own hero

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I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship. — Louisa May Alcott

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