In life, be a participant, not a spectator.

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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. — George Bernard Shaw

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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."

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Ability is of little account without opportunity.

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Expecting the best means that you put your whole heart (i.e. the central essence of your personality) into what you want to accomplish. People are defeated in life not because of lack of ability, but for lack of wholeheartedness. They do not wholeheartedly expect to succeed. Their heart isn't in it, which is to say, they themselves are not fully given.

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As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

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From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ... I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed. — Harry A. Blackmun

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If you believe it’ll work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you don’t believe it’ll work out, you’ll see obstacles. ― Wayne Dyer

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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. - Harry Truman

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