Either you run the day or the day runs you. — Jim Rohn

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For some, life may be a playground to undermine the brainwaves of others or simply a vainglorious game with an armory of theatrics, illustrating only bleak self-deception, haughty narcissism and dim deficiency in empathy. ("Another empty room") ― Erik Pevernagie

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If I don't like something that's going on in my life, I change it. And I don't sit and complain about it for a year.

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Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it – Charles R. Swindoll

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The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

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I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota. - Gustave Courbet

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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

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And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. - J. K. Rowling

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Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. - Charles R. Swindoll

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Growth is the only evidence of life. – John Henry Newman

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