Gratitude is looking on the brighter side of the life, even if it means hurting your eyes

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This is my real secret to being a joyful person: I make my life easy. I spend more time being grateful for what I have instead of focusing on what isn't working. I no longer believe that people have to do things my way and that I have to be perfect.

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It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting

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It was so important for me to lose everything, because I found out what the most important thing is, which is to be true to yourself.

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Being a teenager and figuring out who you are is hard enough without someone attacking you.

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It must be around forty, when you're "over the hill." I don't even know what that means and why it's a bad thing. When I go hiking and I get over the hill, that means I'm past the hard part and there's a snack in my future. That's a good thing as far as I'm concerned.

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The definition of success changes. Success is to live your life with integrity and not give in to peer pressure to be something you're not. Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else's path; unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path, then by all means, you should follow that

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The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and to not give in to peer pressure to try to be something that you're not.

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I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.

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Asking who's the 'man' and who's the 'woman' in a same-sex relationship is like asking which chopstick is the fork.

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