In life, we always rise or fall to the standards we set for ourselves - Set high standards. ― Fela Bank-Olemoh

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Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it."

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Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life.- John Wooden

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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

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Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...It's about learning to dance in the rain. ― Vivian Greene

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She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are apt to be just the opposite, and that people who make dates are the same kind who need lines on their writing paper, or who always squeeze up from the bottom on a tube of toothpaste.

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A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort.

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Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

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Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can. ― Douglas Pagels

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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

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