It’s about trust

As soon as you trust yourself, you’ll know how to live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The man in the glass

When you get what you want in your struggle for self,
And the world makes you king for a day,
Then go to the mirror and look at yourself,
And see what that man has to say.
For it is not a man’s father, mother or wife,
Whose judgement upon him must pass,
The fellow whose verdict counts most in life,
Is the man staring back from the glass.
He’s the fellow to please, never mind all the rest,
For he’s with you clear to the end,
And you’ve passed your most dangerous, difficult test,
If the man in the glass is your friend.
You can fool the whole world down the pathway of years,
And get pats on the back as you pass,
But the final reward will be heartache and tears,
If you’ve cheated the man in the glass.

Dale Wimbrow

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A fresh start

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

Ivy Baker Priest

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Will you last?

Tough times don’t last, Tough People do.

Robert Schuller

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Keep calm

You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.
Abraham Lincoln

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About the meaning of life

Man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked.

Viktor Frankl

You give meaning to your life, nobody else can.

You decide what is of importance and what keeps you motivated.

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It’s not the critic who counts

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt