No one's life is a smooth sail; we all come into stormy weather. But it's this adversity - and more specifically our resilience - that makes us strong and successful.

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Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human. -- Tony Robbins

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Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.

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I'm from the old school; hard work pays off. - John David Washington

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Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

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Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity. — Marie Curie

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Like my father, I am very impatient. I have a strong bullshit detector. I may finish one book in twenty that I have started.

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Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. — Francesca Reigler

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We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat. -Terence McKenna

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Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. — Marianne Williamson

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