You can't start the new chapter in your life if you keep re-reading the last one.
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The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. -Charles Dubois
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I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become. ~ Carl Jung
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It is never too late to become what you might have been. -George Eliot
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It's not who you are that holds you back, it who you think you're not.
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myth of the "atomic age" -- as in being able to remake ourselves. -Mahatma Gandhi
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People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. - Ralph W. Emerson
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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. -Louisa May Alcott
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it. -Alan Key
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Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken. - Albert Camus
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Human relationships
are primary in all of living. When the gusty winds blow and shake our lives, if
we know that people care about us, we may bend with the wind, but we won't
break. -Fred Rogers
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs -- jolted by every pebble in the road. - Henry Ward Beecher
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People who have faith in life are like swimmers who entrust themselves to a rushing river. They neither abandon themselves to its current nor try to resist it. Rather, they adjust their every movement to the watercourse, use it with purpose and skill, and enjoy the adventure.
-David Steindl-Rast
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A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse. -Mark Twain
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The moment you can visualize being free from the things that hold you back, you have indeed begun to set yourself free. -Unknown
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If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few. -SUZUKI-ROSHI
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Every exit is an entry somewhere else. -Tom Stoppard
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By benevolent powers wondrously sheltered, we, confident, await what may come.
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny. -Paramahansa Yogananda
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The art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. -Havelock Ellis
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. -Margaret Mead
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All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today. -Indian Proverb
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Stasis is the most dangerous of those things which are not natural. –Paul Atredies
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Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. - Frank Herbert
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. -Frank Herbert
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Loss makes artists of us all . . . as we weave new patterns in the fabric of our lives.
–Greta Crosby
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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not
sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. - Anne Bradstreet
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The world is perfect, including our efforts to change it. -Ram Dass
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Success depends upon how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
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Fundamentally, what everyone needs is mental strength and confidence, to manage the mind, just as we manage the outside world. - Amma
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If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change
your destiny.- Paramahansa Yogananda
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The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating.The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and their destination. - John Schaar
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I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship. -Louisa May Alcott
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Difficult things provoke all your irritations and bring your habitual patterns to the surface. And that becomes the moment of truth. You have the choice to launch into your lousy habitual patterns, or to stay with the rawness and discomfort of the situation and let it transform you. -Pema Chodron
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I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better. – Georg C Lichtenberg
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Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history. ~Joan Wallach Scott
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What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. – Richard Bach
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Don't think about what you've left behind.-Paulo Coelho
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It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.-Paulo Coelho
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Resiliency is the key to love. -Ronald Rolheiser
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Time spent thinking about past and future is time taken away from living. -Barry Bub, MD
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Our ancestry streches back through the life forms and into the stars, back into the beginnings of the primeval fireball. This universe is a single multiform energetic unfolding of matter, mind, intelligence and life. -Brian Swimme
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A so-called fault is a weak place where character can change. -Robert Aitkin Roshi
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Example is the school of mankind; indeed they will learn at no other.
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The voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new vistas,
but in having new eyes. -Proust
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If you do not change your direction, you are likely to end up where you are headed.
~Ancient Chinese Proverb
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The Man who lives a life of self awareness
is his own driver and skillfully finds his way. -Plotinus
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To be without some of the things you want
is an indispensable part of happiness. – Bertrand Russell
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You have got to let go of the life you have planned to live the life that is waiting for you. -Joseph Campbell
The important thing is to be able at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you can become. -Charles Dubois
And the day came when the risk to remain closed in a bud became more painful than the risk it took to blossom. -Anais Nin
If we don't change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed. -Chinese proverb
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The main benefit of optimism is resilience in the face of setbacks. - Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman
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