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"So I draw because I feel like it might be my only real chance to escape the reservation."
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Personal Development
"If you don't know it's impossible, it's easier to do."
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Personal Development
"If this was my forever, I didn't want to spend another second of it here."
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Personal Development
"Life can be impossibly tough. At times it seems like there is no escape from either the pressure or monotony of a world where you are corralled into being something or someone you are not. But there is an escape, to more peaceful and gentler places, and a happier state of mind."
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Personal Development
"Where else can we find happiness for a day other than from something that can offer momentary relief, something like the booze?"
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Personal Development
"I'm going out for a bottle of champagne. We're going to get bombed."
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Personal Development
"To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one."
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Personal Development
"I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favourite feeling in the world."
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Personal Development
"I recognized it instantly. It was a made-up story, a fantasy, the tale of four kids who went through a magic wardrobe and found themselves in a strange new world. I'd read it more times than I could remember, and although I sneered at the thought of a magical land with friendly, talking animals, there were times when I wished, in my most secret moments, that I could find a hidden door that would take us allout of this place."
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Personal Development
"The remotest place on Earth can sometimes be the most attractive place on Earth especially in times when our belief in humanity is lost!"
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"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."
Support
"I have learned that trying to control other people's opinions of you is the fastest possible route to unhappiness."
Happiness
"If I could give one message to the bullies, it would be this: You are incredible. You are bound for great things. You have the potential to be anybody you want to be. There are people who believe in you. There are people who love you. Be what we know you can be, even if you don't believe in yourself right now."
Encouragement
"The next time you want to withhold your help, or your love, or your support for another for whatever the reason, ask yourself a simple question: do the reasons you want to withhold it reflect more on them or on you? And which reasons do you want defining you forevermore?"
Self
"Happiness comes from striving to make tomorrow better than today and being at peace when yesterday was better than today as well."
Happiness
"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?"
Motivation
"I will one day accept death with gratitude if I meet it having lived a life that became truly my own."
Acceptance
"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."
Justice
"The more you put your arm around those that you might naturally look down on, the more you will love yourself. And the more you love yourself, the less need you'll ever have to find fault or be better than others. And the less we all find fault or have a need to be better than others, the quicker this world becomes a far better place to live."
Compassion
"The most difficult part of dating as a single parent is deciding how much risk your own child's heart is worth."
Parenting
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