Acceptance and Respect

It’s not about changing the world. It’s about doing our best to leave the world… the way it is.

It’s about respecting the will of others, and believing in your own.

Big Boss, Metal Gear Solid 4

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It’s all in your head

It’s not what you are that holds you back, it’s what you think you are not.

Denis Waitley

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Forgive yourself

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

Les Brown

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Be true to yourself

A “No” uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a “Yes” merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

Gandhi

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On Friendship

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The most brutal of teachers

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

C. S. Lewis

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It’s just money

A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

George Bernard Shaw

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Action = Happiness

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

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Get going

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers

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Get active

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.

Dr. Robert Schuller

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