You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.

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I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

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Fill your life with people who applaud your positive thoughts, feelings, and actions; who encourage you toward more and better; who know how to praise the good and beautiful. — Peter McWilliams

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When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.

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The realest people don’t have a lot of friends. — Tupac Shakur

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Even, today, when people tell me I'm beautiful, I do not believe a word of it.

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I know what I can do so it doesn't bother me what other people think or their opinion on the situation.

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Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.

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What I try to tell young people is that if you come together with a mission, and its grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible. - John Lewis

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Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people. - Cornel West

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