The need for contrast

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Sir Francis Bacon

What is freedom?

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By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for the engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Oddly motivational

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In spite of everything, I shall rise again.

Vincent Van Gogh

In silence there is healing

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In solitude there is healing. Speak to your soul, listen to your heart. Soemtimes in the absence of noise we find the answers.

Prateek Cool

Who are you?

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You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

James Baldwin

Endure the struggle

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We don’t quit, we don’t cower, we don’t run. We endure and conquer.

Kobe Bryant

Step by step

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Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Comfort vs. Courage

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I want to be in the arena. I want to be brave with my life. And when we make the choice to dare greatly, we sign up to get our asses kicked. We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can’t have both. Not at the same time.

Brene Brown

Find your balance

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Love says ‘I am everything.’ Wisdom says ‘I am nothing.’ Between the two, my life flows.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

It’s a matter of attitude

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A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

Patricia Neal