It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it. ― George Saunders

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My only regrets are the moments when i doubted myself and took the safe route. Life is too short to waste time being unhappy. ― Dan Howell

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Growing into your future ... requires a dedication to caring for yourself as if you were rare and precious, which you are, and regarding all life around you as equally so, which it is.

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I think of your grandmother calling me and noting how you were growing tall and would one day try to “test me.” And I said to her that I would regard that day, should it come, as the total failure of fatherhood because if all I had over you were my hands, then I really had nothing at all. ― Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Growing up in this post-apartheid era, the first generation of teens in South Africa living in this new democracy, I often found myself feeling different. I was often the only person of color in an otherwise all-white school. And within the Indian community, because of my training with an English acting teacher, my accent was very different.

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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. ― Joseph Addison

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I believe that my personal mission in life is to grow and contribute, so I am learning and growing every day.

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Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it. ― Alexandre Dumas

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The only time you are actually growing is when you are uncomfortable.

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