Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

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We are storms that never die. ― Alice Tyszka

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The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

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Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. ― John F. Kennedy

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The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one. ― Oscar Wilde

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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. ― Helen Keller

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NEVER let anything or anyone STEAL your joy. Those are open to love; we love who you are and just the way you are. We are humans who are not expected to be PERFECT. God made us just the way we are. Our being cannot be defined by how we look but by our character, knowing this to be the best we can be and knowing that we are uniquely created just the way we are. ― Dr. Nana

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It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. — Confucius

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. — T. S. Eliot

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