Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend. ― Sarah Dessen

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Focus on what you're grateful for in your life. If you don't appreciate what you have, you won't get any more... because the universe thinks it's not important to you, and therefore you don't need any more.

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Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.

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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

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I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

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There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

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Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

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In the middle of chaos lies opportunity.

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Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.

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Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. — Dean Acheson

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