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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

—Irving Berlin

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There are two main strategies we can adopt to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals. The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make them fit our goals better.

—Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing.

—Heather Armstrong

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The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

—Okakura Kakuzo

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When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: admit it, learn from it, and don't repeat it.

—Paul "Bear" Bryant

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Everything you do in life, every choice you make, has a consequence. When you do things without thinkin', then you ain't makin' the choice. The choice is makin' you.

—Mark Steven Johnson

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It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

—Italian proverb

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The human heart cannot love the whole world. And if you try to put the whole world into your heart, you will eventually lose touch with your own humanity.

—Gordon Atkinson

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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.

—Michel de Montaigne

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I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time.

—Louise Nevelson

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If you were to go [to the Rijksmuseum], and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude getting stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people dying at sea and in battle and a parade of martyrs. But Not. One. Single. Cancer. Kid. Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.

—John Green

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Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

—Henry Winkler

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We are each responsible for our own life - no other person is or even can be.

—Oprah Winfrey

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He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.

—Seneca

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To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth... is potentially to have everything...

—Joan Didion

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