You can't talk defeat and expect to have victory. You can't talk lack and expect to have abundance. You've got to send your words out in the direction you want your life to go. Joel Osteen

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Ability is of little account without opportunity.

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Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. ― Charlotte Brontë

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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Life isn’t meant to be lived perfectly…but merely to be LIVED. Boldly, wildly, beautifully, uncertainly, imperfectly, magically LIVED. ― Mandy Hale

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Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. - Confucius

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If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.

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Like love, like talent, like any other virtue, like anything else in this life, happiness needs to be nurtured - this is the truth of the whole matter. ― Ogwo David Emenike

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The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. - Albert Schweitzer

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One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

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