You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. - Maya Angelou

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Maybe it's good we don't know what will happen next in our stories, because if we did, we might not turn the page. Or we might skip ahead and never experience the good that comes out of the hard moment we're living through ― Simone Biles

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I’m proud of you for trying. Keep pushing forward.

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I am so proud of you—you are handling this like a boss. Or at least like a really efficient administrative assistant.

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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. — Helen Keller

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You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script. — Oprah Winfrey

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Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. ― Neil Gaiman

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If you care about something enough, you'll find a way to make it happen. ― Roy T. Bennett

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I was unhappy for a long time, and very lonesome, living with my grandmother. Then it was that books began to happen to me, and I began to believe in nothing but books and the wonderful world in books — where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas. ― Langston Hughes

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Opportunities don’t happen. You create them. ― Chris Grosser

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