People always complain that they can't do this and they can't do that." "If we look at our lives and concentrate on things that we don't have or wish to have, that doesn't change the circumstances. The truth is that we have to focus on what we have and make the best out of it.

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The only joy in the world is to begin. —Cesare Pavese

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Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

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All the world is a stage and we are merely players.

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The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.

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

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Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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It takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it, to know what true freedom is.

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