And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

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The value of surrounding yourself with positive people is not what you get from them, but how good a person you have become because of them. ― Roy T. Bennett

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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. ― Rumi

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As an athlete, you'd better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud. -Dwayne Johnson

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I willingly allow that money does not guarantee happiness; but it must also be allowed that it makes happiness a great deal easier to achieve. ― Pierre A.F. Choderlos de Laclos

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I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully. — Anna Howard Shaw

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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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So Bush certainly wasn't the greatest, and Obama has not done the job. And he's created a lot of disincentive. He's created a lot of great dissatisfaction. Regulations and regulatory is going through the roof. It's almost impossible to get anything done in the country.- Donald Trump

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Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another. ― Toni Morrison

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Respect yourself, and others will respect you.

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