And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers-perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.

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We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

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There's more to life than dating the boy on the football team. — Taylor Swift

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Quit hanging on to the handrails . . . Let go. Surrender. Go for the ride of your life. Do it every day.

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Don’t you think it’s better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life —Audrey Niffenegger

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Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

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Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.

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The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.

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Don't think small and expect to have a big life.

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Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am. ― Parker J. Palmer

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