My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... ― Henry David Thoreau

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As you go on with your life, always remember the things that are good in you. They're your gifts. As long as you have these things, you'll find happiness, and you'll make the people around you happy. ― Genki Kawamura

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The power of positive thinking can change your life. - Devin McCourty

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You can't talk defeat and expect to have victory. You can't talk lack and expect to have abundance. You've got to send your words out in the direction you want your life to go. Joel Osteen

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

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But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture. ― Raymond Carver

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Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.- John Lennon

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If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything. - Marilyn Monroe

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