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    “Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance that is desired less and rewarded most when embraced.”
    ― Carolyn Wells
    tags: adversity, inspirational, recovery-from-abuse, recovery-from-grief, reinvention, transformation
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    “Grieving is an expression of gratitude, and that expression doesn't have to be rushed.”
    ― Carolyn Wells, Start Again, Inspiration from the Sunny Side of Adversity
    tags: grief-and-loss-quotes, grief-inspirational
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    Maya Angelou
    “What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
    ― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
    tags: 1993, advice, complaining, inspirational
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Maya Angelou
    “When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: oprah-s-thank-you-game, people
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    Maya Angelou
    “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: character, consistency, courage, determination, essence, ethos, fortitude, goodness, inspiration, life-lessons, persistence, resolve, self-reliance, strength, virtue, virtues
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    Maya Angelou
    “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Maya Angelou
    “You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Maya Angelou
    “Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”
    ― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
    tags: 2008, advice
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    “You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right”
    ― Jack Canfield
    tags: determination, motivational
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    “You only have control over three things in your life-the thoughts you think, the images you visualise, & the actions you take.”
    ― Jack Canfield
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  • #12
    Les Brown
    “Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.”
    ― Les Brown, Live Your Dreams
    tags: inspirational-quotes, les-brown
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    Les Brown
    “You don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.”
    ― Les Brown, The Power of Purpose
    tags: inspirational, les-brown
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    Les Brown
    “Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.”
    ― Les Brown
    tags: inspirational, les-brown, motivational
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    Les Brown
    “Never say you're having a bad day...say you're having a character building day”
    ― Les Brown
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    Les Brown
    “Tough times don’t last, tough people do.”     Motivational”
    ― Les Brown, Live Your Dreams: Say "YES" To Life
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    Les Brown
    “Make sure when you fall you land on your back if you can see you can get up.”
    ― Les Brown, Live Your Dreams
    tags: inspirational, les-brown, life, when-you-fall
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    “The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.”
    ― Myles Munroe
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    “You must decide if you are going to rob the world or bless it with the rich, valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away within you.”
    ― Myles Munroe, Understanding Your Potential - Discovering the Hidden You
    tags: attitude, inspirational, life, potential
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    “One of the greatest tragedies in life is to watch potential die untapped.”
    ― Myles Munroe
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    “How someone else perceives and understands us depends only 7 percent on what we say, 38 percent on how we say it, and 55 percent on what we are doing when we say it.”
    ― Myles Munroe, The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage
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    Mother Teresa
    “Peace begins with a smile..”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: inspirational, peace, smile, smiling
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    Mother Teresa
    “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: misattributed-to-mother-teresa, paraphrased
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    Mother Teresa
    “The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: paraphrased
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    Mother Teresa
    “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: change, community, incrementalism, misattributed-to-mother-teresa, world, yourself
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    Mother Teresa
    “Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: happiness
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    Mother Teresa
    “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: misattributed-to-mother-teresa
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    Mother Teresa
    “Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: paraphrased
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    Mother Teresa
    “Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: paraphrased
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  • #30
    Mother Teresa
    “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
    ― Mother Teresa
    tags: compassion, connecting, humanity, inspirational, love, sharing
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