Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

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It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.

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Maybe happiness didn’t have to be about the big sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. Maybe it was about stringing together a bunch of small pleasures. — Ann Brashares

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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

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You are stopping you, you are giving up instead of getting hard. ― David Goggins

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The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be. ― Leo Babauta

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I'm against genocide. I'm against fascism. I'm willing to fight against them so that, in that sense, I think one can still be committed to justice and committed to peace but recognize the circumstances under which one does have to fight. - Cornel West

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The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn't matter what mood you're in, or what kind of year you've had–it's a fresh start. – Kelly Clarkson

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Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself. ― Epictetus

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Similar to using an opponent’s energy to gain an advantage, leaning on your calloused mind in the heat of battle can shift your thinking as well. ― David Goggins

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