A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. ― George Santayana

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I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone

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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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Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.

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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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When a child wants to be accepted, he'll do anything. And if it means you're getting a certain amount of notoriety from a fight, that's what you'll do.

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I'd like to say to all my fans out there, thanks for the support. And to all my doubters, thank you very much because you guys have also pushed me.

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

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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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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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