I wanted you to know that the world in its entirety could never be found in the schools, alone, nor the streets, alone, nor in the trophy case. I wanted you to claim the whole world, as it is. ― Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Most important, my mind was in the game—I was determined not to fail level seven a second time. I’m not sure what was going on with me the first time, except I’ve noticed that, sometimes, when we’re zooming along and it’s all blue skies, we can suddenly hit a bump in the road. That’s tough, but it can also force us to slow down and reassess what we want, where we’re going—and just how hard we might need to work to get there. ― Simone Biles

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watching his son in quick pulses of attention. ― Thomas Pynchon

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If you feel that your life doesn’t matter it’s likely that you decided that it didn’t matter, and then you chose to act on a poor decision. ― Craig D. Lounsbrough

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We don't lose ourselves in parenthood. We find parts of ourselves we never knew existed. ― L.R. Knost

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A father is the man who can change a world he will not be part of by building the tiny human that is part of him. ― Craig D. Lounsbrough

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He was all iron outside, but all father within. ― Hall Caine

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You WILL eventually become what you think. Whether you succeed or fail is determined in your mind long before we see it play out in real-time. ― Mandy Hale

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There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise

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We are our greatest prison and our worst warden. ― Craig D. Lounsbrough

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