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“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“Use your anger for good. Anger to people is like gas to the automobile - it fuels you to move forward and get to a better place. Without it, we would not be motivated to rise to a challenge. It is an energy that compels us to define what is just and unjust.”
― Arun Gandhi, The Gift of Anger

tags: anger-management, challenge, energy

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“Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, and taking action in the face of fear.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“There's a story behind every
"I don't believe in love"
"Period”
― Abhishek Shukla, Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1

tags: age, aim, anger, belief, business, change, confidence, courage, creativity, death, desire, dreams, education, failure, faith, family, fear, forgiveness, goal, god, happiness, hate, heart, history, hope, humorous, imagination, inspirational, leadership, life, loneliness, love, marriage, one-liner, opportunity, optimism, patience, patriotism, peace, philosophy, poems, politics, poverty, relationship, religion, romantic, sad, school, science, success, time, truth, ve-attitude, war, wisdom-wise, witty

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“Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses.
Focus on your character, not your reputation.
Focus on your blessings, not your misfortunes.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart