You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. - Maya Angelou

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You don’t have to be defined or confined by your environment, by your family circumstances, and certainly not by your race or gender. — Mariah Carey

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We used to be hunter-gatherers, now we're shopper-borrowers. ― Robin Williams

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Here's what you need to keep in mind. You no longer have yesterday. You do not yet have tomorrow. You have only today. This is the day the Lord has made. Live in it.

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Of all the choices you make each day none is more important than the choice of a positive attitude. ― Germany Kent

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Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. — Helen Keller

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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination. — Tommy Lasorda

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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

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When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.

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The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

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