Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity. - Colin Powell

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No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise. ― Laurell K. Hamilton

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Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.

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A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

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There's always that one person, That will always have your heart. That one person for me is you.

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Knowledge is a great gift, and the thirst to seek it even greater. Use what you know...Head and heart...You are not made to give greater weight to one than the other.

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Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.

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There is only one map to the journey of life and it lives within your heart

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Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness. ― Kahlil Gibran

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I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. – Charles Dickens

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