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1. When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. 2. You can either experience the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The choice is yours. 3. Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up. 4. Magic is believing in yourself. If you can make that happen, you can make anything happen. 5. If something is important enough, even if the odds are stacked against you, you should still do it. 6. People who wonder if the glass is half empty or full miss the point. The glass is refillable. 7. Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. 8. Invest in your dreams. Grind now. Shine later. 9. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. 10. If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. 11. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. 12. Great things are done by a series of small things brought together 13. Very often, a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. 14. It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it. 15. If you believe it’ll work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you don’t believe it’ll work out, you’ll see obstacles. 16. Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart. 17. Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. 18. At any given moment you have the power to say: this is not how the story is going to end. 19. Don’t limit your challenges. Challenge your limits. 20. Whenever you find yourself doubting how far you can go, just remember how far you have come. 21. In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity 22. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. 23. Dreams don’t work unless you do. 24. Go the extra mile. It’s never crowded there. 25. Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really: Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success. 26. If you want to fly give up everything that weighs you down 27. Focus on being productive instead of busy. 28. When someone says you can’t do it, do it twice and take pictures. 29. I didn’t get there by wishing for it, but by working for it. 30. You’re so much stronger than your excuses 31. I choose to make the rest of my life, the best of my life. 32. If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is. 33. Twenty years from now you’ll be more disappointed by the things you did not do than the ones you did. 34. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. 35. A winner is a dreamer who never gives up. 36. The only thing standing in the way between you and your goal is the BS story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it. 37. The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. 38. Nothing is stronger than a broken man rebuilding himself. 39. It’s not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters. 40. The best way to predict your future is to create it. 41. A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure. 42. You could rattle the stars,” she whispered. “You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most. 43. Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens. 44. Practice makes progress not perfect. 45. Quitters never win. Winners never quit! 46. Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. 47. We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. 48. The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. 49. If you talk about it, it’s a dream. If you envision it, it’s possible. If you schedule it, it’s real. 50. The key to success is to start before you are ready. 51. Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited about what could go right. 52. Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat is accepted as a reality. 53. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. 54. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default. 55. Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm 56. Why do we grieve failures longer than we celebrate wins? 57. Failure isn’t the end of the road. It’s a big red flag saying to you ‘Wrong way. Turn around. 58. Whenever you feel like a failure, just remember that even Coca Cola only sold 25 bottles their first year 59. Take the risk or lose the chance. 60. Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. 61. Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. 62. If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room. 63. If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you. 64. The best thing you can do is MASTER the chaos in you. You are not thrown into the fire, you ARE the fire. 65. Flowers grow back even after the harshest winters. You will too. 66. Do something today that your future self will thank you for.

— Charlotte Eriksson, Everything Changed When I Forgave Myself

— Unknown

l all taken by Alex Hawkinson

— Tammara Webber

— Najwa Zebian

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“If there is ever, even for a fleeting moment, a tiny voice in your head, and that tiny voice is telling you, "I deserve better", listen to her. That’s your partner. That’s your real, true love. And if you betray her long enough, you will lose her.” You (S03E10)

— Jorge Luis Borges

some days you just have to create your own sunshine.