The definition of success changes. Success is to live your life with integrity and not give in to peer pressure to be something you're not. Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else's path; unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path, then by all means, you should follow that

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Asking who's the 'man' and who's the 'woman' in a same-sex relationship is like asking which chopstick is the fork.

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Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.

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It must be around forty, when you're "over the hill." I don't even know what that means and why it's a bad thing. When I go hiking and I get over the hill, that means I'm past the hard part and there's a snack in my future. That's a good thing as far as I'm concerned.

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I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.

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Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.

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When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

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I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.

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It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting

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If someone ever says you’re weird, say thank you.

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