The Lover
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It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.
“To admit uncertainty is to admit to weakness, to powerlessness, and to believe in yourself despite both. It is a frailty, but in this frailty there is a strength: the conviction to live in your own mind, and not in someone else’s.”
― Educated
― Educated
“Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“Now that I’m an adult, I realize that kids know at a very young age when they’re being devalued, when adults aren’t invested enough to help them learn. Their anger over it can manifest itself as unruliness. It’s hardly their fault. They aren’t “bad kids.” They’re just trying to survive bad circumstances.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
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