Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny. — C.S. Lewis

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'The Desolation of Smaug' stands alone as an action/adventure epic movie. It's visually stunning, and the 3D is incredible. Plus, it's directed by Peter Jackson, and he's extraordinary. - Luke Evans

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Every noble work is at first impossible. – Thomas Carlyle

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A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.- Wade Boggs

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Magic always happens when you direct your inner powers to the object you want to change. – Bangambiki Habyarimana

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Out of the experience of extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud. — Nelson Mandela

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Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. – Marilyn Monroe

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Take time to do what makes your soul happy.

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The years lay spread out before her, spacious untouched canvases on which she was presently going to paint the picture of her life. It was to be a very beautiful picture, she said to herself with an extraordinary feeling of proud confidence; not beautiful because of any gifts or skill of hers, for never was a woman more giftless, but because of all the untiring little touches, the ceaseless care for detail, the patient painting out of mistakes; and every touch and every detail was going to be aglow with the bright colours of happiness. ― Elizabeth von Arnim

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And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It is the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln

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