I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. — Abraham Lincoln

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Being happy isn’t having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it’s about stringing together all the little things. – Ann Brashares

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Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it. — Rafiki, The Lion King

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The most beautiful things are not perfect, they are special

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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

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You can’t stop the waves but you can learn to surf.― Keanu Reeves

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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance ― E.E. Cummings

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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.

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By seeking and blundering we learn. ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Now is the time to make good use of time. Today is the day to begin a perfect day. ― Sri Chinmoy

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