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"Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you."
"Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want."
"Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses.Focus on your character, not your reputation.Focus on your blessings, not your misfortunes."
"Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes."
"Sometimes you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are."
"You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it."
"When the going gets tough, put one foot in front of the other and just keep going. Don’t give up."
"Ester asked why people are sad."That’s simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams."
"Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see"
"Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey."
"The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore."