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Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.
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You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.
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The thing that I do best is 'Be Here. Be Now'.
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When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.
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If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.
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Whatever your secret, live your own truth; life is too short.
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Courage is feeling the fear and doing it anyway.
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For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness.
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Are you ready to stop colluding with a culture that makes so many of us feel physically inadequate? Say goodbye to your inner critic, and take this pledge to be kinder to yourself and others.
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If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.
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What you put out is already on its way back to you.
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Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
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If I had kids, my kids would hate me. They would have ended up on the equivalent of the Oprah show talking about me; because something [in my life] would have had to suffer and it would've probably been them.
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When you don't give yourself the time and care you need, your body rebels in the form of sickness and exhaustion.
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All you need to do is know who you are.
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Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves.
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The whole barrier exists because most people never come together and sit down at a table ... join together, break bread together, and celebrate their differences and their likenesses.
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No matter how diligent or persistent you have been, there is not one of us who made this journey toward success by ourselves.
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Intent and service-that is my motto.
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When you do your best, people notice.
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There is a level of disrespect for the office that occurs. And that occurs in some cases and maybe even many cases because he is African American. There’s no question about that and it’s the kind of thing nobody ever says but everybody’s thinking it.
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What I know for sure is that the only way to endure the quake is to adjust your stance. You can't avoid the daily tremors. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.
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I consider this world to be like a school and our lives to be the classrooms.
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I've seen that many times in rural African villages where people have nothing but a hut and a bowl. The joy in the children's eyes is something you wish you could package and bring back to America.