If you want to get the most out of your men, give them a break! Don't make them work completely in the dark. If you do, they won't do a bit more than they have to. But if they comprehend, they'll work like mad. -Chesty Puller

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When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched. ― Edgar Allan Poe

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Life is tough my darling, but so are you. — ​Stephanie Bennett Henry

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Be truthful, gentle, and fearless.

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I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place. -Maya Angelou

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Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.

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Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you. — Taylor Swift

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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. — Henry James

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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

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