Freedom can never be taken for granted. Each generation must safeguard it and extend it. Your parents and elders sacrificed much so that you should have freedom without suffering what they did. Use this precious right to ensure that the darkness of the past never returns.

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When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too. — Paulo Coelho

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Upgrade your past by seeing it with appreciation.

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As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found- in himself.

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What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

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To be haunted by past failures or satisfied with past successes is to arrest forward motion. ― Conrad Hilton

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People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.

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To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill your desire, yet you refrain from doing so. A person like this is the strongest person. The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do.

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Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.

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

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