Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power. — William James

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Self-care is how you take your power back. — Lalah Delia

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I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota. - Gustave Courbet

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If we desire power over sin, we must pray. ― Lailah Gifty Akita

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There isn’t time—so brief is life—for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving—and but an instant, so to speak, for that. — Mark Twain

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There is power in being robbed & still choosing to dance. ― Amanda Gorman

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I do not wish them women to have power over men; but over themselves. ― Mary Wollstonecraft

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In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.

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May our lives be transformed by the power of the Holy Scriptures. ― Lailah Gifty Akita

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The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.

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