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Change was inevitable, but she could not image what the future might look like, or what her place might be in it. All she could do was hope she did not end up in a shoe box at a Salvation Army Thrift Store.

—Glaciers, Alexis M. Smith 

Try to keep your mind open to possibilities, and your mouth closed on matters you don’t know about. Limit your always and your nevers. Continue to share your heart with people, even if it has been broken. Don’t treat your heart like an action figure, wrapped in plastic and never used.

—Amy Poehler, Harvard University, 2011 Commencement 

Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

—– Marie Curie

There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you — of kindness and consideration and respect — not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn’t know you had.
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And don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

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-John Steinbeck, in a letter to his son, 1958 

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