And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time. ― Libba Bray

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There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. — Nelson Mandela

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He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I am not afraid. ― Mary Renault

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. Simone de Beauvoir

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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

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People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe, and then they do not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjuration. People populate the darkness; with ghost, with gods, with electrons, with tales. People imagine, and people believe; and it is that rock solid belief, that makes things happen.

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I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.

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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I drink to make other people more interesting.

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