Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries, and everything they thought and every struggle they went through and everything they gave their lives to, and every song they created, and every poem that they laid down flows down to me – and if I take the time to ask, and if I take the time to see, and if I take the time to reach out, I can build that bridge between my world and theirs. I can reach down into that river and take out what I need to get through this world

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Your first purpose is to find a purpose for yourself. And your second purpose must not immediately be trying to reach that purpose you found but to investigate thoroughly whether that purpose is really necessary for yourself or whether it is worth at all to struggle for it! Because millions are fighting for a purpose which will in no way make them happy at the end! ― Mehmet Murat ildan

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We can do no great things, only small things with great love. – Mother Teresa

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The one who falls and gets up is so much stronger than one who never fell. – La La Anthony

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Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream. - Khalil Gibran

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Every challenge you face today makes you stronger tomorrow. The challenge of life is intended to make you better, not bitter. ― Roy T. Bennett

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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.

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Don't let your dreams be dreams. –Jack Johnson

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

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The struggle ends when gratitude begins.

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