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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If your method in correcting others leaves them worse than you met them, correct yourself. ― Zain Abdul Nassir

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The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy. ― Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. ― Henry David Thoreau

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He spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it ― Nouwen Henri J. M.

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Above all, don’t lie to yourself. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness. – Robert Morley

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Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it's the understanding of something.

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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

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Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down. ― Roy T. Bennett

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