Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

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Training and managing your own mind is the most important skill you could ever own, in terms of both happiness and success.

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Crossing out is an art that is, perhaps, even more difficult than writing. It requires the sharpest eye to decide what is superfluous and must be removed. And it requires ruthlessness toward yourself -- the greatest ruthlessness and self-sacrifice. You must know how to sacrifice parts in the name of the whole.

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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning. — J. B. Priestley

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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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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

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Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there. — Bo Jackson

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Don't think small and expect to have a big life.

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To lose patience is to lose the battle.

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