If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.

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To lose patience is to lose the battle.

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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. - Thomas A. Edison

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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

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We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.

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As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. ― Henry David Thoreau

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You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice. — Bob Marley

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Life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything.

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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. ― Albert Camus

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Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

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