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The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

—Paul Tillich

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I decided not to let my past rule my future so I decided to change my present in order to open up my future.

—Dr. Ana M Guzman

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Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

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It had only been my repeated experience that when you said to life calmly and firmly... 'I trust you; do what you must,' life had an uncanny way of responding to your need.

—Olga Ilyin

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When you build bridges you can keep crossing them.

—Rick Pitino

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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

—Henry David Thoreau

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Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.

—Sharon Salzberg

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There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man--with human flesh.

—Frank Herbert

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Real strength is not just a condition of one's muscle, but a tenderness in one's spirit.

—McCallister Dodds

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Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it.

—Lady Duff-Gordon

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When men are scared of a woman, they always accuse her of being mannish.

—Elizabeth Aston

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A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.

—Philip Gold

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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.

—Thomas Jefferson

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The best index to a person's character is/ (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and/ (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

—Abigail Van Buren

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When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

—Pierre Corneille

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