Instead of complaining about the problem and blaming others, start finding the solution. ― Roy T. Bennett

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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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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man. -Diogenes

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The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate. ― Cormac McCarthy

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Live all you can: it's a mistake not to. It doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had? ― Henry James

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We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own and other's people's models, learn to be ourselves and allow our natural channel to open.

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We all have negative thoughts now and then, but we can choose not to dwell there and not to let them control us. ― Roy T. Bennett

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When I discover who I am, I’ll be free. ― Ralph Ellison

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Without labor nothing prospers. — Sophocles

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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth. — Pearl S. Buck

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