People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you’re lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life. — Carrie Ann Moss

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Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself. ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. ― Robert Frost

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I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself. ― Michel de Montaigne

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The only impossible journey is the one you never begin. ― Tony Robbins

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We have to protect our mind and our body, rather than just go out there and do what the world wants us to do. ― Simone Biles

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No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough ― bell hooks

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. ― Martin Luther King Jr.

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people's thinking. ― Steve Jobs

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Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

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