Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.

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And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

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Focus on what you're grateful for in your life. If you don't appreciate what you have, you won't get any more... because the universe thinks it's not important to you, and therefore you don't need any more.

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You are your own stories and therefore free to imagine and experience what it means to be human... And although you don't have complete control over the narrative - no author does, I can tell you - you could nevertheless create it.

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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

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If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

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My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. ― John F. Kennedy

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If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind. — C. S. Lewis

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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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