Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.

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We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ― Joseph Campbell

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Silence is a great source of strength. — John Heider

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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

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The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after. ― Henry David Thoreau

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. ― Helen Keller

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If you talk about it, it's a dream, if you envision it, it's possible, but if you schedule it, it's real.

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I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

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You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone. ― Roy T. Bennett

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The first step before anybody else in the world believes it, is that you believe it.

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