My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

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Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.

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I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.

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We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.

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Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.

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Every journey begins with a single step.

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If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you will look forward, do so prayerfully. But the wisest course would be to be present in the present gratefully.

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You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a rainbow in someone else's cloud. Do not complain. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.

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Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.

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