The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.

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I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

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One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind. — C. S. Lewis

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If you can dream it, you can achieve it. — Zig Ziglar

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Take and chance and don't ever look back. Never have regrets, just lessons learned.

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When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

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The future depends on what we do in the present.

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What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen. ― Henry David Thoreau

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Time decides who you meet in life, your heart decides who you want in your life, and your behavior decides who stays in your life. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

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