Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.

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I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. — Alice Walker

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Know that you are the perfect age. Each year is special and precious, for you shall only live it once. Be comfortable with growing older.

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NEVER let anything or anyone STEAL your joy. Those are open to love; we love who you are and just the way you are. We are humans who are not expected to be PERFECT. God made us just the way we are. Our being cannot be defined by how we look but by our character, knowing this to be the best we can be and knowing that we are uniquely created just the way we are. ― Dr. Nana

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The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence. ― Henry David Thoreau

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Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. — Frank Pittman

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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel._ Maya Angelou

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All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of.

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Nothing happens in life by accident. Nothing occurs by chance. Nothing takes place without producing the opportunity for real and lasting benefit to you. The perfection of every moment may not be apparent to you, yet that will make the moment no less perfect.

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My name is Adam Sandler. I'm not particularly talented. I'm not particularly good-looking. And yet I'm a multi-millionaire. - Adam Sandler

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