Ben Mikaelsen Quotes
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Happiness, like anger, is also a habit. You learn to be happy one day at a time. But habits change hard.
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Anger is a memory never forgotten. You only tame it.
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Animals can teach us more about ourselves than any teacher.
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What you focus on becomes reality. Everybody carries anger inside. But also happiness. Those who focus on anger will always be angry. Those who focus on happiness will.
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How much of the world did people miss because they were not calm enough, empty enough, to experience it?
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Our differences should be our strength, not why we fight.
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All my parents do is drink. They hate me. Do you know what it's like waking up every morning knowing you're not good enough? there are only two things wrong with me-everything I do and everything I say. They'll never be happy until I'm dead.
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As Cole left school that day with Peter, they stopped beside the bulldog statue. "You two are wrecking our school!" shouted one of the jocks walking by. "You can't wreck something that's already wrecked!" Peter shouted back angrily. "Hey, Peter, we're Spirit Bears," Cole reminded his friend. "Spirit Bears are strong, gentle, and kind." Peter thought a moment. "You got mauled, so that proves they can get ticked off too.
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Why live if you can’t help others and make the world a better place?
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Diminish anything around you and you diminish yourself.
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No matter what people say to you,be strong!
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People change two ways --- with slow persistent pressure, or with a single and sudden traumatic experience.
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When the ground is torn up, that’s when you plant seeds.
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Whatever you do to the animals, you do to yourself. Remember that.
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You’ve changed, but you have to decide what you’re going to do around people who haven’t changed.
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A good day wasn’t a day without clouds but rather a day when one focused on finding the sunlight behind the clouds.
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You were born original don't die a copy.
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You have to want to be happy—some people don’t.
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Teachers have the right to teach and students have the right to learn. Nobody has the right to take away those rights. Nobody.
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Every part of a Circle is both a beginning and an end, and in a Circle, everything is one.
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Writing is storytelling and all of us are authors, not just of words but of reality. You are the author of your life, so go out and live! Then never quit writing about it!
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You do not have the right to destroy someone else’s dignity because you have none yourself!
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But would it make things better if I let myself get down all the time?