If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

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You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.

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God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit. -Johnny Cash

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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

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Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes your friend for life.

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A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

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Don't let failure go to your heart, and don't let success go to your head.

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I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other. Harvey Fierstein ― Harvey Fierstein

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I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

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