We aren't where we want to be; we aren't where we ought to be; but thank goodness we aren't where we used to be.

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Choose to be optimistic, it feels better. — Dali Lama

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You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go. — Dr. Seuss

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Sometimes I think of you and I feel giddy. Memory makes me lightheaded, drunk on champagne. All the things we did. And if anyone has said this was the price I would have agreed to pay it. That surprises me; that with the hurt and the mess comes a shift of recognition. It was worth it. Love is worth it. ― Jeanette Winterson

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Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.- Joy Page

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The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense. - Ida B. Wells

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Happiness comes in many forms — in the company of good friends, in the feeling you get when you make someone else’s dream come true, or in the promise of hope renewed. It’s okay to let yourself be happy because you never know how fleeting that happiness might be. ― Lucas Scott

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The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.

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Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.— Dalai Lama

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Let us not hesitate to surrender to our desire and our passion for joy when we are willing to be reborn from the ashes of a lost past and feel ready to burn down desperation and boredom. (''Happiness is blowing in the wind'') ― Erik Pevernagie

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