I worked with several writers at the University of Michigan: Nicholas Delbanco, Peter Ho Davies, Eileen Pollack, Laura Kasischke, and Thomas Lynch, who told me the same thing over and over again: Persist. Read, write, and improve: tell your stories. - Jesmyn Ward

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Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful.

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Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful. — Thich Nhat Hanh

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Some of the most beautiful people in the whole world wake up some days and they don't think that they're pretty.

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Every sunrise is priceless and you can experience the richness that life holds only when you live life to the full instead of just being an onlooker. ― Stephen Richards

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Well, filming in Hawaii, you know, is a blessing. It's one of the most beautiful places on this planet. It has a very mystic energy which informs you as an actor.

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We have all been thrown down so low that nobody thought we'd ever get up again; but we have been long enough trodden now; we will come up again, and now I am here. ― Sojourner Truth

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Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated. — Nelson Mandela

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The most dangerous irony is, people are angry with others because of their own incompetence. ― Amit Kalantri

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Even, today, when people tell me I'm beautiful, I do not believe a word of it.

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