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    “When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, ” When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies.” But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you’re not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.” ~ Ellen DeGeneres

      “There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.” ~ Christopher Morley

        “That’s what building a body of work is all about. It’s about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime to a lasting legacy. It’s about not being satisfied with the latest achievement, the latest gold star, because the one thing I know about a body of work is that it’s never finished. It’s cumulative. It deepens and expands with each day you give your best. You may have setbacks and you may have failures, but you’re not done. You haven’t even started.” ~ Barack Obama

          “I’ve come to embrace the notion that I haven’t done enough in my life. I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.” ~ Barack Obama

            “If A is success in life, then A equals X plus Y plus Z. Work is X; Y is play; and Z is keeping your mouth shut.” ~ Albert Einstein

              “The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever” ~ Anne Frank

                “I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!” ~ Anne Frank

                  “We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.” ~ Anne Frank

                    “Write to be understood, speak to be hear, read to grow.” ~ Lawrence Clark Powell

                      “It’s so simple really:  If you say you’re going to do something, do it.  If you start something, finish it.” ~ Epictetus

                        “The biggest rewards in life are found outside your comfort zone.  Live with it.  Fear and risk are prerequisites if you want to enjoy a life of success and adventure.” ~ Jack Canfield

                          “Death is nature’s way of telling you to slow down.” ~ Anonymous

                            “You don’t want no pie in the sky when you die,  you want something here on the ground while you’re still around.” ~ Muhammad Ali

                              “Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new.”

                              Epictetus, Art of Living

                                “Nothing we can do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.” ~ Ashleigh Brilliant

                                  “For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is – to live dangerously.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

                                    “We need to see pain in the right light; we need to contextualize it and develop a proper attitude toward life, one of self-mastery, creation, and ultimately a kind of playfulness. Then, each individual failure, each accident will be redeemed within the greater context of a successful life, a life of one’s own making.” ~ Jacob Held

                                    Pain is a fact.

                                      Pain is a fact.

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                                      “We can’t escape pain; we can’t escape the essential nature of our lives. But we do have a choice. We can give in and relent, or we can fight, persevere, and crete a life worth living, a noble life. Pain is a fact; our evaluation of it is a choice.” ~ Jacob Held

                                        “From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.” ~ Arthur Ashe

                                          “You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can decide how you’re going to live now.” ~ Joan Baez