You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them. - Shonda Rhimes

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No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.

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My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.

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People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

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The way to get ahead is to start now.

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True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. - Helen Keller

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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

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It's a terrible waste to be happy and not notice it.

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Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.

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