He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed. — William James

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Life is like a camera. Focus on what's important. Capture the good times. And if things don't work out, just take another shot. - Ziad K. Abdelnour

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One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. — André Gide

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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. ― Robert Louis Stevenson

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There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires. — Nelson Mandela

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Failure is success in progress

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Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor. ― Thich Nhat Hang

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For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end. — Michelle Obama

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It requires a better type of mind to seek out and to support or to create the new than to follow the worn paths of accepted success. — John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

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