If you have been brutally broken, but still have the courage to be gentle to other living beings, then you’re a badass with the heart of an angel. ― Keanu Reeves

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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. — Anaïs Nin

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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

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You do not find the happy life. You make it. — Camilla Eyring Kimball

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A winner is a dreamer who never gives up

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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ― Eleanor Roosevelt

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In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

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Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. — Winston Churchill

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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.- Lao-Tze

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