My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.
Alice Walker
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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.
Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.
Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
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