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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Never apologize for what you feel. It's like being sorry for being real.

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Time is clearly not our natural dimension. Thus it is that we are never really at home in time. Alternately, we find ourselves wishing to hasten the passage of time or to hold back the dawn. We can do neither, of course, but whereas the fish is at home in water, we are clearly not at home in time--because we belong to eternity.

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A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better. ― Sidney Poitier, The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography

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Nothing happens in life by accident. Nothing occurs by chance. Nothing takes place without producing the opportunity for real and lasting benefit to you. The perfection of every moment may not be apparent to you, yet that will make the moment no less perfect.

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Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. ― Carl Sandburg

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Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. — Charles R. Swindoll

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Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans. ― Allen Saunders

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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

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When was the last time you woke up and realized that today could be the best day of your life? ― Steve Maraboli

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