The new midlife is where you realize that even your failures make you more beautiful and are turned spiritually into success if you became a better person because of them. You became a more humble person. You became a more merciful and compassionate person.

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What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

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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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I always remind people from outside our state that there’s plenty of room for all Alaska’s animals — right next to the mashed potatoes.

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It’s always better to shock people and change people’s expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. — Jonah Hill

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Let some people get rich first. - Deng Xiaoping

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To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near God.

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Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people.- Donald Trump

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.- Mahatma Gandhi

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All I know is that the first step is to create a vision, because when you see the vision – the beautiful vision – that creates the want power. ― Arnold Schwarzenegger

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