remember to recognize the small successes that you will have. Don't let the brightness of that big goal blind you to what happens on the way toward the goal. Meet one wave at a time and enjoy what progress you make. I want you please not to be taken up in the undertow of pessimism.

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I cured myself of shyness when it finally occurred to me that people didn't think about me half as much as I gave them credit for. The truth was, nobody gave a damn. Like most teenagers, I was far too self-centered. When I stopped being prisoner to what I worried was others’ opinions of me, I became more confident and free.

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When you're too mad and too rattled to see straight, you're bound to make mistakes. You can't go on and on for years being miserable about a situation and not have it change you. You get so you can't stand yourself.

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I believe that we're as happy in life as we make up our minds to be.

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Responsibility is the ability to respond.

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I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.

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I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.

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There's a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it is based on sensitivity, empathy, awareness ... but a bad temper takes too much out of you and doesn't really accomplish anything.

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Love yourself first and everything falls into line.

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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.

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