Let people judge me as they please - I can deceive them, but I cannot deceive myself.

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Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive good things and good people will be drawn to you. _ Mary Lou Retton

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Some of the most beautiful people in the whole world wake up some days and they don't think that they're pretty.

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Take life seriously but none of the people in it.

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My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.

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Today I will let go of my need for approval and my need to be liked. Instead, I will choose to like and approve of myself. The people who count (including me) will respect me when I'm true to who I really am.

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What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. ― Henry David Thoreau

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It so difficult to know what the people we love really need.

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

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We make our own hell out of the people around us.

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