People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

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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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If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. -Wayne Dyer

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The future belongs to the competent. Get good, get better, be the best! – Brian Tracy

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My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail. - David Hare

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When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the nature of parent-child interaction. Parents become more willing, even excited, about deeply understanding and helping their children. . . . This paradigm is powerful in business as well.

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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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You must be the change you wish to see in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi

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