Breaking out of patterns

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Sometimes the place you are used to is not the place where you belong.

The Queen of Katwe 

Challenge yourself

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I read somewhere… how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong… to measure yourself at least once.

Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

How to spend your time

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The key question to keep asking is: Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.

Randy Pausch

Renew yourself

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Renew, release, let go. Yesterday’s gone. There’s nothing you can do to bring it back. You can’t “should’ve” done something. You can only DO something. Renew yourself. Release that attachment. Today is a new day!

Steve Maraboli

Becoming a better person

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No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you’ve come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.

Madonna

Give it a try

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No one is unqualified to at least give it a little try.

Kalipluche

You start now, as is

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You either start now, or it is not going to happen for you, and you are going to wake up at seventy years old (or eighty, if you are already seventy) filled with sorrow that you let your dream, your passion, gift, fall by the wayside. You start now, as is. ‘As is’ is the portal to creation, to new life.

Anne Lamott

Look with the heart

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People where you live,” the little prince said, “grow five thousand roses in one garden… yet they don’t find what they’re looking for… They don’t find it,” I answered. And yet what they’re looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water…” Of course,” I answered. And the little prince added, “But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

Excellence

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Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

Aristotle

Creating yourself

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Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.

Buddha