A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

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Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

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The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy. ― Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

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I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape. – Charles Dickens

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A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

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Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running. — Zig Ziglar

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How difficult life may seem, while there’s life, there is hope.

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I would rather be kind than anything else. — Jann Arden, singer and songwriter

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History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

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