Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. ― William Faulkner

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The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy. ― Thich Nhat Hanh

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Before me things created were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri

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Take a moment and sit with yourself. You may find what you are looking for. ― Steven Cuoco

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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde

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As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

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Life is short, and there's something to be said for being true to yourself. _ Anohni

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The prisoner imagines freedom to be more wonderful than it is.

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Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.- Annette Funicello

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I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind. -Maya Angelou

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