I was always led to believe you should take care of yourself, trust in your abilities and you're the author of your own destiny.

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I don’t believe in adhering to any rules I don’t support and I didn’t vote for. To hell with what people think. Just be who you are and you’ll be happy.

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The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?

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If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure. ― Philip Pullman

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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

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God can so fill a man with His Spirit that he can laugh and believe in the face of a thousand difficulties.

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I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work. – Harry S. Truman

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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping. ― Oscar Wilde

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I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am.

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I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got. ― Hermann Hesse

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