He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas A. Edison

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You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot ― it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive. ― Maya Angelou

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The mentor can be identified by four things: by restraining you from wrongdoing, guiding you towards good actions, telling you what you ought to know, and showing you the path to heaven. — Gautama Buddha

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We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states or in the mass society created by capitalism. Every system, by virtue as much of its abstract nature as of its pretension to totality, is the enemy of life. As a forgotten Spanish poet, José Moreno Villa, put it with melancholy wit: "I have discovered in symmetry the root of much iniquity."

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Liberty of thought is the life of the soul. - Voltaire

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In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.

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A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

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So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow. ― Rainbow Rowell,

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