Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

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Start where you are, use what you have. — Arthur Ashe

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There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.

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If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

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You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself.

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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. — Nelson Mandela

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Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

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Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

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If you don't create your reality, your reality will create you. — Lizzie West

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