The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.

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You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. ― George Lorimer

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The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at. — Jesse Owens

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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

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Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.

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You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.

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once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up

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Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.

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I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

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Always believe in yourself. No matter who's around you being negative or thrusting negative energy at you, totally block it off. Because whatever you believe, you become.

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