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"Success-minded people know that first and foremost, in all we do, we must think of others first. By thinking of others, how they feel and what they need, will not cost you a thing nor will it lessen what you have to say."
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"Apathy is, too often, a result of overexposure to stressful, highly emotional situations. To rekindle empathy, sometimes we need some space. It's okay to walk away so that you can feel love for someone again. Sometimes for a moment. Sometimes forever."

"Sometimes all you can do is hug a friend tightly and wish that their pain could be transferred by touch to your own emotional hard drive."

"In youth, the greatest success is to see the world from the eyes of the aged people and to feel exactly how they feel."

"How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?"

"Appreciate youthfulness and empathize with elderly people."

"Do not judge. You don't know what storm i've asked her to walk through."

"[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which blind us to the fact that they are really, despite a thousand differences, just altered versions of ourselves: fellow fragile, uncertain, flawed beings likewise craving love and in urgent need of forgiveness."
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"Stop making excuses of why you can't or how hard it is and start making your life matter."

"The greatest weapon you have, and the one that will see you through anything, is a settled determination that you will achieve your dream."

"Good manners is just being respectful of others. Whether you know them or not, you should show respect for all people."

"The fact that you are not perfect may come as a surprise to you but it is not a surprise to anyone else."

"Always remember that the lessons you learn in life are never meant just for you. They are like all our gifts, they are meant to be used and shared, never horded and hidden."

"It is amazing to see all that is going on around us and it is people of action who make it all happen."

"The best decisions are always made quickly and changed slowly, not made slowly and changed quickly."

"Writing out a goal allows us to see it in words. It creates a statement that does not change, it is something that we can go back to repeatedly for direction and clarity."
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