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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

- Michael Korda

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

- Simone de Beauvoir

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

- Viktor Frankl

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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

- Hannah Arendt

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge; and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

- William Ellery Channing

The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more things you will have to express gratitude for.

- Zig Ziglar

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

- Golda Meir

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The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot.

- William Ellery Channing

Freedom is not caprice but room to enlarge.

- C. A. Bartol

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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

- Alice Walker

We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in the derogatory images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves.

- Marshall Rosenberg

The sun will stand as your best man
And whistle
When you have found the courage
To marry forgiveness
When you have found the courage
to marry
Love.

- Hafiz of Persia

Whatever you do, you should do it with feeling.

- Yogi Berra

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.

- Dr. Seuss

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Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

- Shel Silverstein

When thought is closed in caves, then love will show its roots in deepest hell.

- William Blake

Our attitude in the face of life's challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.

- Tara Brach

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

- Abraham Lincoln

Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder ...

- Henry David Thoreau

I will prepare and someday my chance will come.

- Abraham Lincoln

No one can look at a pine tree in winter without knowing that spring will come again in due time.

- Frank Bolles

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

- Charles Caleb Colson

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

- Napoleon Hill

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.

- Napoleon Hill

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