Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius

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Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. — Judy Garland

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Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.― George Bernard Shaw

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There are many ways to calm a negative energy without suppressing or fighting it. You recognize it, you smile to it, and you invite something nicer to come up and replace it; you read some inspiring words, you listen to a piece of beautiful music, you go somewhere in nature, or you do some walking meditation.

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This the American black man knows: his fight here is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or wins. If he wins it will be by no subterfuge or evasion of amalgamation . He will enter modern civilization here in America as a black man on terms of perfect and unlimited equality with any white man, or he will enter not at all. Either extermination root and branch, or absolute equality. There can be no compromise. This is the last great battle of the west.

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You can't make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence. ― Julien Smith

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Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.

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When your dreams are bigger than the places you find yourself in, sometimes you need to seek out your own reminders that there is more. And there is always more waiting for you on the other side of fear. — Elaine Welteroth

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Your first purpose is to find a purpose for yourself. And your second purpose must not immediately be trying to reach that purpose you found but to investigate thoroughly whether that purpose is really necessary for yourself or whether it is worth at all to struggle for it! Because millions are fighting for a purpose which will in no way make them happy at the end! ― Mehmet Murat ildan

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To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will. — Sugar Ray Robinson

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