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"If your dreams and goals get derailed, they're not dead. Derailed simply means off-track. Pick 'em up and put 'em back on again."
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"I had to break to pieces, so I could reassemble even stronger."

"Comport yourself with grace under pressure."

"Even the smartest and most successful of people will experience lower self-confidence occasionally, but the difference is that they deliberately shift out of it and refuse to stay there."

"It's not my story anymore: whenever I speak about the past now, I feel as if I were talking about something that has nothing to do with me. All that remains in the present are the voice, the presence, and the importance of fulfilling my mission. I don't regret difficulties I experienced; I think they helped me to become the person I am today, I feel the way a warrior must feel after years of training; he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, but he knows how to strike when the time is right."

"As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course."

"If you can't forget about all the great pains you've endured, as many of us can't, at least take some time to celebrate the fact that you've somehow kept going, in spite of it all. And you've certainly kept growing, because of it all."

"What cannot be altered must be borne not blamed."

"People give up. People settle. People persevere. And you can do all three if you're smart enough."

"You make name for yourself when you overcome pain, weakness, laziness and ignorance."

"You are a failure not the time when you are defeated.. but when you give up fighting."
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"Our greatest mistakes, if we look at them, and digest them, and interact with them, and learn from them, they can be the greatest moments of our lives."

"Who do you want to surround yourself with? People who can pull you up to their level of greatness? Or people who will happily pull you down to theirs?"

"It's time we stand up and demand more of the fathers of this world. It's time we stop buying into their rationalizations and their sorry explanations. It's time we give our kids a fighting chance."

"I will one day accept death with gratitude if I meet it having lived a life that became truly my own."

"My dad encouraged me to quit my job and pursue the life that I am about to have. He got excited with me. He was the first one to tell me that I could do it. I am 30 years old, and I still find great power in my own dad telling me it's possible.I still find great power in my own dad telling me I can do it."

"I have learned that trying to control other people's opinions of you is the fastest possible route to unhappiness."

"Good fathers, and by that I mean real fathers who are there, have the ability to change almost every social problem we now find ourselves facing. I'd be assumptive enough to say that there isn't a single type of crime or a single problem so big that it couldn't be fixed or wiped out if fathers would just step up."

"One of the greatest tragedies I can think of is for a person to die having never fully questioned the life he was born into."

"I am, for some reason, actually happy with who I am and the muscle, the bones, and the flub that exist beneath these clothes.I don't need to lose 20 lbs. to be attractive.I don't need to starve myself of the good things of life to be healthy.And, I don't need to chase someone else's ideal of what I should be looking like."
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