Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

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I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

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Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. – Arthur Ashe

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To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing. - Elbert Hubbard

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Creativity is intelligence having fun.

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Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes. — Zig Ziglar

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To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It’s not about winning and losing; it’s about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It’s about embracing the pain that you’ll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge. ― Summer Sanders

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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.

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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

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If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

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