He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I am not afraid. ― Mary Renault

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Focus on what you're grateful for in your life. If you don't appreciate what you have, you won't get any more... because the universe thinks it's not important to you, and therefore you don't need any more.

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I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone. ― Robin Williams

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. ― Helen Keller

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There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.

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If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything. ― Malcolm X

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I had my life Monday through Friday in school, and then I had my 'real life,' which was my acting class on Saturday. — Gillian Jacobs

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Don't focus on what's wrong. Things may not be perfect, but be grateful for the opportunity to experience each day. Live each day like it could be your last. Joel Osteen

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Words may help you understand something, but experience allows you to know. Never ever trade your own experience for someone else's words about anything that is really important... like God, for instance, or Love, or what is true about another.

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Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience. ― Roy T. Bennett

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