It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.- Leonardo Da Vinci

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I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. - Marilyn Monroe

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If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.- James Cameron

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Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.- Og Mandino

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Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses. — Lao Tzu.

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Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. – Babe Ruth

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The purpose of our lives is to be happy. — Dalai Lama

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And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. - J. K. Rowling

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Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans. — John Lennon

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The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. - Terry Pratchett

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