Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. ― Leo Tolstoy

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A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions

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You look up to your parents and you want them to accept you, and you don't want them to look at you in a negative light. So you do things to make them proud and accept you.

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Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away by his unequaled imagination, they look for allegories — and come up with nothing but clichés: life is absurd (or it is not absurd), God is beyond reach (or within reach), etc. You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

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When you realize how precious and fragile life is, it changes your whole perspective. — Ryan O’Donnell

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There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future. ― Eleanor Brown

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I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing. ― Elbert Hubbard

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To say goodbye is to die a little. ― Raymond Chandler

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Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you? - Charles Spurgeon

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