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“If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?”
― Jerry Seinfeld

“The only thing that keeps me going, is the desire to get away as far as possible.”
― Aleksandra Ninkovic, Write like no one is reading

“The moment you realize that life will hurt more than your death. While existing, we're forced to become acquainted with sadness. There's no antibiotic for the ridding of distress, and no alleviation of these intervals of pain we must encounter. Behind our eyes, are all these things: our stories, our dreams, our deficiencies, and our scars. Today would leave a scar.”
― Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading

“It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.”
― Douglas R. Hofstadter, Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern

“Don’t use your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe.”
― Joel Osteen, I Declare: 31 Promises to Speak Over Your Life

“Every twenty-four hours God has a fresh new supply of grace, of favor, of wisdom, of forgiveness.”
― Joel Osteen, I Declare: 31 Promises to Speak Over Your Life

“God has amazing things in your future.”
― Joel Osteen, I Declare: 31 Promises to Speak Over Your Life

“Lord, help us to choose humility over pride.
Help us to choose love over our reputation.
Help us to choose patience over making a point, and your Word over our feelings.
Lord, help us to choose perseverance over the easy way out.”
― Andrena Sawyer

“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.”
― Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect

“Small, Smart Choices + Consistency + Time = RADICAL DIFFERENCE”
― Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect

“It's not the big things that add up in the end; it's the hundreds, thousands, or millions of little things that separate the ordinary from the extraordinary.”
― Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be his world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'

I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!”
― Lewis Carroll

“The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way. 21.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
― Gustave Flaubert