Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

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I didn’t choose the thug life, the thug life chose me. — Tupac Shakur

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Make each day your masterpiece. – John Wooden

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You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. ― Helen Keller

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How can you and I really expect to glide naively through life, as if to say, 'Lord, give me experience, but not grief, not sorrow, not pain, not opposition, not betrayal, and certainly not to be forsaken. Keep from me, Lord, all those experiences which made Thee what Thou art! Then, let me come and dwell with Thee and fully share Thy joy!'

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

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I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.

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Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.

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Does it ever make you sad to know that was seven summers ago? – Morgan Wallen

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