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“Ah! dearest love, sweet home of all my fears,
and hopes, and joys, and panting miseries,
Tonight if I may guess, thy beauty wears a smile of such delight,
As brilliant and as bright
As when with ravished, aching, nassal eyes,
Lost in a soft amaze
I gaze, I gaze”
― John Keats, Letters of John Keats

“Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad

“In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad

“The single most powerful asset we all have is our mind. If it is trained well, it can create enormous wealth in what seems to be an instant.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad

“Not all toxic people are cruel and uncaring. Some of them love us dearly. Many of them have good intentions. Most are simply toxic to our being simply because their needs and way of existing force us to compromise ourselves and our happiness. They aren't inherently bad people, but they aren't the right people for us.”
― Daniell Koepke

“There is a truth deep down inside of you that has been waiting for you to discover it, and that truth is this: you deserve all good things life has to offer.”
― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret

“Remember that your thoughts are the primary cause of everything.”
― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret

“It is very hard to show up as the person you want to be when you are surrounded by an environment that makes you feel like a person you aren’t.”
― Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery

“Happy people know suffering more than anyone else, and that’s how they can see just how damn beautiful their lives are. It’s because they’ve seen the depths.”
― Brianna Wiest

“Either way, mental strength is not just hoping that nothing ever goes wrong. It is believing that we have the capacity to handle it if it does.”
― Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery

“Remember: The quality of our thoughts determines the quality of our lives. And our decisions are a result of our thoughts.”
― Darius Foroux, Think Straight: Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life

“Whatever you do, never waste your thoughts on other people’s ill-informed opinions and guesses.”
― Darius Foroux, Think Straight: Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life

“At the end of the day, thinking by itself is useless without action.”
― Darius Foroux, Think Straight: Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life

“Life is not about what you know. It’s about what you don’t know. And we never know enough. That’s good news for the both of us. It means that until the day we die, we can keep learning.”
― Darius Foroux, Do It Today: Overcome Procrastination, Improve Productivity, and Achieve More Meaningful Things

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
― Albert Einstein

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
― John Lennon

“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
― Maya Angelou