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#1

“You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

tags: adversity, authenticity, being-yourself, boldness, breaking-the-rules, chances, dance, dancing, finding-yourself, fitting-in, getting-older, go-against-the-grain, happiness, journey-of-life, laughter, lessons, lessons-learned, life-lessons, living-life-on-your-own-terms, loving-yourself, non-conformity, overcoming-adversity, positive-thinking, road-less-traveled, rules, standing-out, taking-chances, the-single-woman, uniqueness

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#2

“Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. Get out of your comfort zone even if it means being uncomfortable. The road less traveled is sometimes fraught with barricades bumps and uncharted terrain. But it is on that road where your character is truly tested And have the courage to accept that you’re not perfect nothing is and no one is — and that’s OK.”
― Katie Couric

tags: comfort, failture, inspiration, road-less-traveled

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#3

“Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: artist, artistic, comparison, different, freedom, future, gifted, gifts, goals, god-s-plan, happiness, jobs, joy, love, on-the-edge, personality, radical, reach-higher, rise-above, road-less-traveled, screenplay, talents, television, unique

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#4

“Look to your right... It is the path back home. If you choose, you can take it. It is safe, easy, and comfortable. You do not have to work out or fight or do anything else you do not want to...

Or you can keep moving forward. I will not lie to you. I cannot predict what may become of you. It will require a lot of training, hard work, study, and danger. But in the very end, you will know strength. I swear it. You might just become someone who will make a difference in the world.”
― Wesley Chu, The Lives of Tao

tags: hard-work, make-a-difference, manning-up, road-less-traveled, strength, turning-point

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#5

“Look for chances to take the less-traveled roads. There are no wrong turns.”
― Susan Magsamen, The 10 Best of Everything Families: An Ultimate Guide for Travelers

tags: road-less-traveled, travel, uniqueness

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#6

“The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost

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#7

“People who refer to out-of-the-box see the box ... People who don't know the box even exists are the innovative thinkers.”
― Lisa Goldenberg

tags: creative-thinking, innovative, out-of-the-box

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#8

“Comfort is a well-worn
pair of shoes
seconds before the
strap breaks”
― Cornelia DeDona, Boogie Fever

tags: out-of-the-box

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#9

“As soon as you open your mind to doing things differently, the doors of opportunity practically fly off their hinges.”
― Jay Abraham, The Sticking Point Solution: 9 Ways to Move Your Business from Stagnation to Stunning Growth InTough Economic Times

tags: opportunity, out-of-the-box

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#10

“Constraint inspires creativity”
― Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind

tags: creativity, entrepreneurship, innovation, out-of-the-box, thinking

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#11

“Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light.”
― Gina Greenlee, Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

tags: boogeyman, do-it-anyway, don-t-hold-back, just-do-it, no-fear, out-of-the-box, out-of-the-dark

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#12

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: happiness

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#13

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness

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#14

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married

tags: happiness, misattributed-john-lennon, procrastination, time

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#15

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness

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#16

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

tags: happiness, love

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#17

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: chance, happiness, risk

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#18

“Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.”
― Belva Davis

tags: belief, dreams, reality

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#19

“Something amazing happens when we surrender and just love. We melt into another world, a realm of power already within us. The world changes when we change. The world softens when we soften. The world loves us when we choose to love the world.”
― marianne williamson

tags: love, power, surrender

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#20

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail

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#21

“To have regret is to be disappointed with yourself and your choices. Those who are wise, see their life like stepping stones across a great river. Everyone misses a stone from time to time. No one can cross the river without getting wet. Success is measured by your arrival on the other side, not on how muddy your shoes are. Regrets are only felt by those who do not understand life’s purpose. They become so disillusioned that they stand still in the river and do not take the next leap.”
― Colleen Houck

tags: inspirational

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#22

“Whether we’re seeking inner peace or global peace or a combination of the two, the way to experience it is to build on the foundation of unconditional openness to all that arises. Peace isn’t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it’s an experience that’s expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened.”
― Pema Chödrön, Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears

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#23

“When we feel dread, when we feel discomfort of any kind, it can connect us at the heart with all the other people feeling dread and discomfort. We can pause and touch into dread. We can touch bitterness of rejection and the rawness of being slighted. Whether we are at home or in a public spot or caught in a traffic jam or walking into a movie, we can stop and look at the other people there and realize that in pain and in joy they are just like me. Just like me they don’t want to feel physical pain or insecurity or rejection. Just like me they want to feel respected and physically comfortable.”
― Pema Chödrön, Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears

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