Be truthful with yourself and other people, and try your best to make decisions outside of your ego. – Nipsey Hussle

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Don't trouble yourself with drama. yourself yourself from anything that is trying to keep you from your purpose. Distractions can limit your growth and make you question your future. Don't fall victim to negativity, it's not worth your time. ― Germany Kent

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While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself. - Douglas Horton

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You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.- Maya Angelou

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Ask yourself, what is the grain of sand in your life that you and only you were sent here to form into a beautiful and priceless pearl? ― Les LaMotte

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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

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Forget your voice, sing! Forget your feet, dance! Forget your life, live! Forget yourself and be! ― Kamand Kojouri

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Remind yourself that even if you are feeling BLUE, your life still has colour to it. ― Dr. Anhad Kaur Suri

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There is no more time to waste. Hours and days evaporate like creeks in the desert. That’s why it’s okay to be cruel to yourself as long as you realize you’re doing it to become better. ― David Goggins

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I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense, but not irrational, nor naïve - because art takes us and makes us take a journey beyond price, beyond cost, into bearing witness to the world as it is and as it should be. Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

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