You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down. — Mary Pickford

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. - Marcus Aurelius

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The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin--the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world.

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Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.

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Dream big and dare to fail. — Norman Vaughan

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Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. - Nelson Mandela

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I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. — Stephen Leacock

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I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.

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Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia. - Alexis Carrel

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