I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. _ Vincent Van Gogh

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You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. Simone de Beauvoir

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Our life is what our thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius

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Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.

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to love is to risk, not being loved in return. to hope is to risk pain. to try is to risk failure. but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in my life is to risk nothing.

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Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters...

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I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own

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There is no magic to achievement. It's really about hard work, choices, and persistence.

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If you organize your life around your passion, you can turn your passion into your story and then turn your story into something bigger something that matters. - Blake Mycoskie

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