Perhaps some detours aren’t detours at all. Perhaps they are actually the path. — Katherine Wolf

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Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you’re focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don’t have, focusing on the limitations, then you will be limited. — Ava DuVernay

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We’re here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark. — Whoopi Goldberg

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But a man cannot remain indifferent to the world around him; it worries him and torments him to think that he could be happier somewhere else, and that he is where he is simply through a mistake of fate.

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Look at it this way: You’ve already survived 100% of your worst days! You’ll get through this one too.

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I'm generally a happy person -with the help of antidepressants, that is- so there is something to be said for surrounding myself with happy people. ― Rachel Machacek

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Do what no one else can do and you will become what no one else can become. ― Matshona Dhliwayo

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Home is any four walls that enclose the right person. — Helen Rowland

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I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me. — Tracee Ellis Ross

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A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better. ― Sidney Poitier, The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography

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