You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.

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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

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The nature of the world is inherently obvious, if you remain in a state of total psycho-physical oneness with whatever and all that presently arises.

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It’s just me against the world. — Tupac Shakur

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there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock. ― Charles Bukowski

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Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

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Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

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It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.

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Work hard for what you want because it won’t come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive. ― Leah LaBelle

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A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever. — Mary Lou Retton

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