Positive change always encounters resistance, conflict, and obstacles. We must embrace difficult and heated situations in life, for that is the method of igniting our reactions in order to transform them.

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The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn. - Pat Metheny

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The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

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First seek happiness from within, then you will find it without. ― Ogwo David Emenike

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If men don’t have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won’t feel compelled to be submissive. If men don’t have to control, women won’t have to be controlled.

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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

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Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ― George Bernard Shaw

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To be successful in writing, use short sentences.

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You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. ― Dr. Seuss

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The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.- Leonard I. Sweet

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