I am alive in 21st Century America. I have a voice. Let it serve as a corrective to the violent and reckless power that stands against the force of love. ― Tracy K. Smith

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You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible - Deepak Chopra

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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Above all, don’t lie to yourself. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Change the way you speak about yourself and you can change your life. - Joel Osteen

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The worst thing you can do is say to yourself, "I want to be just like somebody else." You have to absorb knowledge from someone else, but ultimately you have to find your own voice.

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Challenge yourself; it’s the only path which leads to growth. ― Morgan Freeman

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Sometimes we get so caught up in our daily lives that we forget to take the time out to enjoy the beauty in life. It’s like we’re zombies. Look up and take your headphones out. Say “Hi” to someone you see and maybe give a hug to someone who looks like they’re hurting.― Keanu Reeves

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The beloved is already in our being, as thirst and "otherness." Being is eroticism. Inspiration is that strange voice that takes man out of himself to be every thing that he is, everything that he desires; another body, another being. Beyond, outside of me, in the green and gold thicket, among the tremulous branches, sings the unknown. It calls to me.

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The value of surrounding yourself with positive people is not what you get from them, but how good a person you have become because of them. ― Roy T. Bennett

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