There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will. ― Epictetus

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There is always light. Only if we are brave enough to see it. There is always light. Only if we are brave enough to be it. ― Amanda Gorman

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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

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We're all brilliant at something. I discovered my powers when I was four years old. When you're young you're more in touch with your real talents, but so often the 30 year slog knocks it out of people.

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Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.

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As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

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Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power. — William James

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We were told to never use I when writing, because eliminating this voice makes arguments legitimate. But we realize there is nothing that convinces like the self does - our life, our body & its beating, proving it's own jagged point. Tell me what is more powerful than the unerased. ― Amanda Gorman,

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Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

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At any given moment you have the power to say ‘This is not how the story is going to end. — Christine Mason Miller

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