Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.

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Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny. - Mahatma Gandhi

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There is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it. ― Eric Weiner

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You're not going to enjoy every minute of the journey, but the success you'll find at the end will make it all worth it.

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I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.

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Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. _ George A. Sheehan

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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. — Theodore Roosevelt

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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.- Oscar Wilde

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I want to find stories that humanize homosexual experience and that's what Peter Gill does well. - Jonathan Bailey

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