Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy. ― Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

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The true vocation of man is to find his way for himself. – Hermann Hesse

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. —Henry David Thoreau

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Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes. - Zig Ziglar

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Nothing is impossible. The word itself says 'I'm possible!' — Audrey Hepburn

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In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.

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The struggle you're in today is developing the strength you need tomorrow. – Robert Tew

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The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning. — Pele

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Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries, and everything they thought and every struggle they went through and everything they gave their lives to, and every song they created, and every poem that they laid down flows down to me – and if I take the time to ask, and if I take the time to see, and if I take the time to reach out, I can build that bridge between my world and theirs. I can reach down into that river and take out what I need to get through this world

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