Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious effort. — Henry David Thoreau

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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

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There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

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You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight. – Jim Rohn

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My mother is a realist, and she's had biological and adoptive children, and she said it's no different: No matter what, they're putting a stranger into your arms. You don't know them yet.

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One must be something to do something. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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No matter what is going on around or within you, everything at some point must change. It's harder to accept when things are great - and a source of strength when change is what you need. Either way, it reminds me to try my best to be fully present in every moment. — Kandyse McClure

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When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness.

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We are the ones we've been waiting for. — June Jordan

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