It's taken me a long time to learn to accept the risks and just be willing to try it over and over again.

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I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. — Stephen R. Covey

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Friends are the family we choose. — Jennifer Aniston

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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.- Viktor E. Frankl

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One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again. — Abraham Maslow

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There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.

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And I didn't choose it, Kat. I chose you. ― Ally Carter

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You know what daring really is to me? It's maybe much more simple: the willingness to get up and try it again. It's not about whether or not you fall down, it's how you get back up. And I've taken quite a few tumbles, myself.

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Every single night our soul is taken, and every single night the Angel asks before bringing it back, "Ya Allah what about this one?" "Do You want to send it back?" Do You want to pull the plug or should we keep the Ruh (soul)?" And every night Allah gives permission to the Angel to let us live one more time.

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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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