Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas A. Edison

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Learn from the past, prepare for the future, live in the present.

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Story—sacred and profane—is perhaps the main cohering force in human life. - Jonathan Gottschall

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

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Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you CHOSE your life, you didn’t SETTLE for it. ― Mandy Hale

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If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining. _ Guy Finley

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. — Anaïs Nin

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Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

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