Recognize and embrace your flaws so you can learn from them. Sometimes it takes a little polishing to truly shine. ― Kanye West

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In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was 'Help me.' Sometimes a prayer was 'Thank you.' What I've discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away. -Iyanla Vanzant

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The people who really make you angry, control you! ― Steven Aitchison

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Being Latina has always been really, really lovely for me. It's something that I'm very proud of. -Jenna Ortega

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My brother is really, really slow.

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Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up. - Huey Newton

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Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.

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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one.

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The road to excellence starts with what you do best, continues with devotion and never really ends. ― George Wilson Adams

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