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

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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself. ― Rick Riordan

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I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy. — Marie Curie

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It is never too late to be what you might have been. ― Unknown

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For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn't end. — Michelle Obama

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

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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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It requires a better type of mind to seek out and to support or to create the new than to follow the worn paths of accepted success. — John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

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It’s not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change. ― Miles Davis

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