May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

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The real trick is to stay alive as long as you live.

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I've wanted one thing for me whole life and I'm not going to be that girl who wants one thing her whole life then gets it and complains.

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Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. — Louis Pasteur

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Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.

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The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.

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When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.

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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

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Either you run the day or the day runs you. — Jim Rohn

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