A dull, dark, depressing day in Winter: the whole world looks like a Methodist church at Wednesday night prayer meeting. _ H. L. Mencken

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I’m proud of you for trying. Keep pushing forward.

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You kill yourself and you make a big old sacrifice and try to get your revenge. That all you're gonna end up with is a paragraph in a newspaper. In the end, it does nothing. Nothing changes. The world goes on and you're gone. The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.

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You have not failed until you quit trying. - Gordon B. Hinckley

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Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. ― Jennifer Elisabeth

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If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.

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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts. Marcus Aurelius

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I just try and surround myself, for the biggest proportion of time that I can, with people who make me feel normal, because constantly feeling abnormal is quite difficult.

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Whenever I meet someone, I try to imagine her wearing an invisible sign that says: MAKE ME FEEL IMPORTANT. I respond to this sign immediately, and it works wonders.

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I guess I'm a pretty curious person. I like doing new things. I like being challenged. I'm competitive. Trying to beat my personal best.

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