We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own and other's people's models, learn to be ourselves and allow our natural channel to open.

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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

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I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.

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God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. - Voltaire

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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. ― Marcus Aurelius

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A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. — Max Lucado

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[Grace] is given not to make us something other than ourselves but to make us radically ourselves. Grace is given not to implant in us a foreign wisdom but to make us alive to the wisdom that was born with us in our mother’s womb. Grace is given not to lead us into another identity but to reconnect us to the beauty of our deepest identity. And grace is given not that we might find some exterior source of strength but that we might be established again in the deep inner security of our being and in learning to lose ourselves in love for one another to truly find ourselves. — John Philip Newell

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Only the present is real. The past and the future exist only in our imagination. ― Oliver Markus

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If we lose our hope, that's our real disaster! — Dalai Lama

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Your heart’s strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self worth and faith is measured by finally letting go. However, your peace is measured by how long you don’t look back. ― Shannon L. Alder

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