The best way to predict your future is to create it.- Abraham Lincoln

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Nothing in life is promised except death. -- Kanye West

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Only the present is real. The past and the future exist only in our imagination. ― Oliver Markus

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If you risk nothing, then you risk everything. — Geena Davis

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Your customers don't care about you. They don't care about your product or service. They care about themselves, their dreams, their goals. Now, they will care much more if you help them reach their goals, and to do that, you must understand their goals, as well as their needs and deepest desires.

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Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming. — Alice Walker

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Don't be ashamed or embarrassed to dream big. You're living your life with hope, that's a powerful thing.

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May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

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Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. Nothing could vanquish me. — Cheryl Strayed

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The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing. ― Jennifer Niven

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