You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot ― it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive. ― Maya Angelou

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Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try. - Joyce Meyer

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Love is not a relationship, love is a state of being; it has nothing to do with anybody else. One is not "in love", one is love. And of course when one is love, one is in love – but that is an outcome, a by-product, that is not the source. The source is that one is love. ― Osho

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Man is not mean to be humble, he's meant to be humbled. ― Mike Tyson

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We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment. ― David Levithan

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It’s no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then. – Alice, Alice In Wonderland

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You can’t control what others think. The only thing you can control is yourself. Some people will look down on you for your choices in life, no matter what they are. You can’t do anything about that. The only thing you can do is decide how to live your own life. And to hell with everybody else. ― Marie Sexton

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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands. ― G.K. Chesterton

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I am satisfied ... I see, dance, laugh, sing. -- Walt Whitman

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Maybe it just means that love can be stronger than fear. ― L.J. Smith

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