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

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Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand. ― Oprah Winfrey

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Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. ― Mark Twain

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Things are always different than what they might be. If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything. — Henry James

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Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again , come , come. ― Rumi

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A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home. ― Rumi

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.- Euripides

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Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. — Barack Obama

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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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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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