One night I was sitting on the bed in my hotel room on Buker Hill, down in the middle of Los Angeles. It was an important night in my life, because I had to make a decision about the hotel. Either I paid up or I got out: that was what the note said, the note the landlady had put under my door. A great problem, deserving acute attention. I solved it by turning out the lights and going to bed.

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Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem.

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In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. — Dante Alighieri

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If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining. — Guy Finley

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If you don’t have any shadows you’re not in the light.— Lady Gag

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I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet-all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.

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Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow. It is like lightning and thunder. They occur simultaneously, but sound, travelling slower than light, reaches you later, creating the illusion of two separate events.

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I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.- Muhammad Ali

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I was one of those kids that was always picked on but, one thing I gotta say it that no matter how bad your life gets, there's always a bright light out there and you gotta find it. — Nonito Donaire

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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

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