Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

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Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.

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Life is improvisation.

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You don’t have to be defined or confined by your environment, by your family circumstances, and certainly not by your race or gender. — Mariah Carey

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I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time. — Charles M. Schulz

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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

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Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can. — Martha Graham

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The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails

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The future depends on what we do in the present.

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