To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. ― W. Somerset Maugham

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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. — Robert Louis Stevenson

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A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better. ― Sidney Poitier, The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography

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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world. — Jack Layton

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Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.

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I give myself permission to be all that I can be, and I deserve the very best in life. — Louise Hay

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How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

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I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.

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Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try. - Joyce Meyer

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I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

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