Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

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One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen. — Nelson Mandela

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You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. - Maya Angelou

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He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I am not afraid. ― Mary Renault

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It is O. K. for me to feel angry and to express it in responsible ways.

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Fortunately, he'd found that most people were easy to locate at five thirty in the morning. ― Patricia Briggs

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How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you ― Robert Frost

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We are forever responsible for that which we have tamed.

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Then it was that books began to happen to me, and I began to believe in nothing but books and the wonderful world in books-- where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables as we did in Kansas. ― Langston Hughes

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Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. - William Shakespeare

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