I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.

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If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

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I HAVE REALIZED THAT FIGHTING FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS HAS TOO OFTEN BECOME SYNONYMOUS WITH MAN-HATING. IF THERE IS ONE THING I KNOW FOR CERTAIN, IT IS THAT THIS HAS TO STOP

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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. — Margaret Fuller

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If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. — Khalil Gibran

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Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia. - Alexis Carrel

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

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If you expect the best, you will be the best. Learn to use one of the most powerful laws in this world; change your mental habits to belief instead of disbelief. Learn to expect, not to doubt. In so doing, you bring everything into the realm of possibility.

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If it is not a fit place for women, it is unfit for men to be there. ― Sojourner Truth

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I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse. — Florence Nightingale

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