Positive anything is better than negative nothing. _ Elbert Hubbard

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Winning doesn’t always mean being first. Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve done before. ― Bonnie Blair

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Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit.

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It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories. ― W. Somerset Maugham

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I care less about my wake-up time than about the number of hours slept. – Rachel Binx

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You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity and the sour sound of whining.

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The only thing that feels better than winning is winning when nobody thought you could. - Hank Aaron

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Beauty is a whore, I like money better. ― Michael Cunningham

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All your experiences, all your meditations, all your prayer, all that you do, is self-centred. It is strengthening the self, adding momentum, gathering momentum, so it is taking you in the opposite direction. Whatever you do to be free from the self also is a self-centred activity.

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There is no better compass than compassion. — Amanda Gorman

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