Sons are born to make their fathers better men.― Mekael Shane

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Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen. — Brené Brown.

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No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.- Buddha

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We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own and other's people's models, learn to be ourselves and allow our natural channel to open.

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I think of your grandmother calling me and noting how you were growing tall and would one day try to “test me.” And I said to her that I would regard that day, should it come, as the total failure of fatherhood because if all I had over you were my hands, then I really had nothing at all. ― Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Happiness depends upon ourselves. —Aristotle

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We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. — Marie Curie

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We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat. -Terence McKenna

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Most parents think that the commands they give their children are merely suggestions wrapped with lovingness. ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world. ― C.S. Lewis

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