Live in the present

Today I will live in the moment.

Unless it’s unpleasant in which case I will eat a cookie.

Cookie Monster

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A proud life

I hope you live a life you’re proud of.

If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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How to get from A to B

How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? I think you have to have enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal, and you have to be willing to work on it.

Jim Valvano

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Glorious Failures

Don’t fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Bruce Lee

You know the drill. Take risks, fail, fail again, fail better!

Failing and trying again is the creative process it needs to invent quality, to produce value.

Fearing Failures will paralyze you, stopping you short in your pursue of happiness.

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Dream big

A man with no imaginations has no wings.

Muhammad Ali

What you can not think of, you won’t achieve.

In order to become great, you first have to start thinking big!

Dream whatever you want, aim for whatever great goal you want, allow yourself the freedom to pursue whatever plans you desire!

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Prepare yourself

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation

Arthur Ashe

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Travel!

If you’re 22, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.

Anthony Burdain

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The manifestation of awesomeness

We do not hold the belief that this earth is a realm of misery where man is doomed to destruction. We do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and we do not live in chronic dread of disaster. We do not expect disaster until we have specific reason to expect it – and when we encounter it, we are free to fight it. It is not happiness, but suffering that we consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that we regard as the abnormal exception in human life.

Ragnar Danneskjöld from Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged

This mindet is the absolute manifestation of awesomeness.

Life is primarily good! Bad conditions are nothing normal, they are abnormal and have to be fought.

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Profitable mistakes

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Dale Carnegie

Trial & Error makes up a great part of our lifes. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, of failing.

Embrace mistakes, learn as much as possible from your failures. Use them as your advantage.

He who has done many mistakes knows many things to avoid.

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Be prepared to be wrong

If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.

Ken Robinson

Risks, take them.

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