What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements.
― Anais Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
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The flip side of being a person who never fails at anything is that you never do anything you could fail at. You never do anything risky. There’s a certain essential lack of courage among people who seem to be good at everything.
- Nathan Hill, The Nix
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The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.
― Lisa Wingate, A Month of Summer
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If you cannot be open-minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you.
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
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There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
― Alexandre Dumas
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Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none
― Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue
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A DEFINITION NOT FOUND
IN THE DICTIONARY
Not leaving: an act of trust and love,
often deciphered by children
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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Sometimes you just jump and hope it's not a cliff.
― Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue
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#LeapOfFate

If you cannot hold me in your arms, then hold my memory in high regard.
And if I cannot be in your life, then at least let me live in your heart.
― Ranata Suzuki
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
― George Orwell, 1984
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The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
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No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.
Or you don't.

― Stephen King, The Stand
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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
― Maya Angelou
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
― Edgar Allan Poe
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Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.
― Theodore Roosevelt
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If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.
― Shannon L. Alder
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Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right.
― Sherrilyn Kenyon
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When people want to win they will go to desperate extremes. However, anyone that has already won in life has come to the conclusion that there is no game. There is nothing but learning in this life and it is the only thing we take with us to the grave—knowledge. If you only understood that concept then your heart wouldn’t break so bad. Jealousy or revenge wouldn’t be your ambition. Stepping on others to raise yourself up wouldn’t be a goal. Competition would be left on the playing field, and your freedom from what other people think about you would light the pathway out of hell.
― Shannon L. Alder
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It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
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What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.
― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
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