When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

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Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

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I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening. — Larry King

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A failure is like fertilizer; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future. - Denis Waitley

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Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. — Nelson Mandela

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Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do--then do it with all your strength.

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Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

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Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

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Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

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