Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

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To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try. — Rosa Parks

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Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it's a process. It's often not cool to be the person who puts themselves out there.

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It's amazing - you may not realize it, but so much of what you are not is because you are literally standing in your own way of becoming. And what I'm pleading with you about is, get the hell out of your own way.

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If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.

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I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. — Thomas Jefferson

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In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

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Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.- George Bernard Shaw

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If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

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