This is the core of the human spirit ... If we can find something to live for - if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives - even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.

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I was raised in a spirit of the importance of service to your fellow man. My mom is a senator back home in South Africa. My father is a very caring and generous individual.

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Don't set your goals by what other people deem important. ― Jaachynma N.E. Agu

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Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth? ― Bill Watterson

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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life. ― Virginia Woolf

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I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see. -Jimi Hendrix

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The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. ― Frank Herbert

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I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world. ― Stephen King

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To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little. ― Criss Jami

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To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. ― Mary Oliver

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