You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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Champions keep playing until they get it right. - Billie Jean King

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The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and to not give in to peer pressure to try to be something that you're not.

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May you always be the one / Who notices the little things / That make the light pour through / And may they always remind you/ There is more to life and there is more to you. — Morgan Harper Nichols

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Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away by his unequaled imagination, they look for allegories — and come up with nothing but clichés: life is absurd (or it is not absurd), God is beyond reach (or within reach), etc. You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

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When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

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Before me things created were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri

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There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires. — Nelson Mandela

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If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

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I've always had a great work ethic, even when I was washing dishes. – Leon Bridges

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