You willed yourself to where you are today, so will yourself out of it. ― Stephen Richards

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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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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

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Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself. — William Faulkner

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If you believe something needs to exist, if it's something you want to use yourself, don't let anyone ever stop you from doing it. — Tobias Lütke

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Who do you spend time with? Criticizers or encouragers? Surround yourself with those who believe in you. Your life is too important for anything less. ― Steve Goodier

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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. — Booker T. Washington

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To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot. Running away from fear is fear, fighting pain is pain, trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought. There is no escape. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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The value of surrounding yourself with positive people is not what you get from them, but how good a person you have become because of them. ― Roy T. Bennett

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