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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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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Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

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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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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

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It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

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Some of the most gifted people I've ever met or read about are homosexual. How can you knock it?

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Ability is of little account without opportunity.

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Now get the hell out of here and go change the world.

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People either have comedy or they don't. You can't teach it to them.

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