I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

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You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody's one and only. ― Anne Frank

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

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The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward. ― Steve Maraboli

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. _ Marcus Aurelius

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Quit hanging on to the handrails . . . Let go. Surrender. Go for the ride of your life. Do it every day.

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Live your life to the fullest.

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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being in love which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

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That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

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Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

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