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The best pace is a suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die. ↗

— Steve Prefontaine

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I am looking forward enormously to getting back to the sea again, where the overstimulated psyche can recover in the presence of that infinite peace and spaciousness. ↗

— C.G. Jung

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You can't base your life on other people's expectations. ↗

— Stevie Wonder

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I don't care how impossible it seems. ↗

— David Byrne

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The American story has never been about things coming easy. It has been about rising to the moment when the moment is hard. About rejecting panicked division for purposeful unity. About seeing a mountaintop from the deepest valley. That is why we remember that some of the most famous words ever spoken by an American came from a president who took office in a time of turmoil: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. ↗

— Barack Obama

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But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it. ↗

— John Updike

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The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you're going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you. ↗

— Thisuri Wanniarachchi

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The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love, or a call for love. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

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Hope does not leave without being given permission. ↗

— Rick Riordan

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