When we are set free from the bondage of pleasing others, when we are free from currying others'approval-then no one will be able to make us miserable or dissatisfied. And then, if we know we have pleased God, contentment will be our consolation.

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And I can't complain. After all, only women are able really to love.

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My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

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The first writer that I think of immediately that I studied with at Michigan is Peter Ho Davies. He was really important to me, tackling that first novel. Just writing it. - Jesmyn Ward

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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. - J.M. Barrie

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Just to know that the people in my city are really rocking with me, I just love it.- Megan Thee Stallion

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The winds that sometimes take something we love, are the same that bring us something we learn to love. Therefore we should not cry about something that was taken from us, but, yes, love what we have been given. Because what is really ours is never gone forever. ― Bob Marley

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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. — E.E. Cummings

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The single biggest obstacle to us getting what we really need and want in life is right here. It's ourselves. — William Ury

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I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall. — Serena Williams

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