You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

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The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. — Ralph Washington Sockman

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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. — Josh Billings

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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

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What most people call loving consists of picking out a woman and marrying her. They pick her out, I swear, I’ve seen them. As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. They probably say that they pick her out because-they-love-her, I think it’s just the siteoppo. Beatrice wasn’t picked out, Juliet wasn’t picked out. You don’t pick out the rain that soaks you to a skin when you come out of a concert.

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When people go to work, they shouldn’t have to leave their hearts at home. – Betty Bender

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Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared. — Eddie Rickenbacker

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One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

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All theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life.

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