There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. — Nelson Mandela

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Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

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Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.

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Everything which you can conceive and accept is yours! Entertain no doubt. Refuse to accept worry or hurry or fear. That which knows and does everything is inside you and harkens to the slightest whisper.

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing. _ Elbert Hubbard

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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

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Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions. — Dalai Lama

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If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

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Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.

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A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

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