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To achieve self actualization, do good things for other people that you would want to be done onto yourself ↗

— Meg Cabot

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Prejudice and bigotry are brought down...by the sheer force of determination of individuals to succeed and the refusal of a human being to let prejudice define the parameters of the possible. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

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This was the first time I thought of S— that day. Her music was beautiful, her voice was beautiful, her body was beautiful. Even the dirty little pads of her feet were beautiful. I cursed myself then. For once, heaven had sent me Beauty in its most perfected form and I abandoned it. She might not have been a girl after all but an angel: a force to guide me on this hazardous path of life I hurry down. How can life be hazardous if it can only end in death? ↗

— Roman Payne

#barcelona #beauty #beauty-is-truth #feminity #girls

Spirituality is for people. It’s not just for those who you might have read about in books, it’s for people. ↗

— Belsebuub

#motivational #spirituality #inspirational

Rage is the opposite of thought, whoever has put you in this frame of mind has more control over you right now, than you have over yourself. If he is your opponent and you will face him today, you will be defeated. ↗

— Sister Souljah

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Happiness is good, but well-overrated: what we hate most are the very motivators that put us in gear. A man drifts along with little to contribute until something agitates him enough to make a difference, whether for himself or for his communities. ↗

— Criss Jami

#community #contribution #difference #drift #happiness

There is no real world, just the one you create. ↗

— Jolene Stockman

#motivational #world-domination #inspirational

Do you want to make progress? If so, then take each problem not as a challenging rival, but as an encouraging friend of yours, who is helping you to arrive at your ultimate destination. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#problems #progress #inspirational

Elephants love reunions. They recognize one another after years and years of separation and greet each other with wild, boisterous joy. There's bellowing and trumpeting, ear flapping and rubbing. Trunks entwine. ↗

— Jennifer Richard Jacobson

#inspirational #reuinion #inspirational

You would not want to be responsible for someone else’s happiness, so please do not hold someone else responsible for yours! ↗

— Jennifer O'Neill

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