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She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails. #<Author:0x00005560aed32a70>
DETERMINATION
Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more. #<Author:0x00005560aed1c018>
FAMILY
After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer. #<Author:0x00005560aed75668>
CHEER
I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot...and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that's precisely why I succeed. #<Author:0x00005560aed59058>
MOTIVATION
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. #<Author:0x00005560aedc9d08>
KINDNESS
There's a difference between doing things right and doing the right thing. #<Author:0x00005560aeda3428>
RIGHT CHOICES
A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder. #<Author:0x00005560aee46790>
PURPOSE
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. #<Author:0x00005560aee1c418>
RESPONSIBILITY
As is our confidence, so is our capacity. #<Author:0x00005560aeddcbd8>
CONFIDENCE
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. #<Author:0x00005560aee82448>
GOOD MANNERS
Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories. #<Author:0x00005560aee58210>
PREPARATION
The Earth is a fine place and worth fighting for. #<Author:0x00005560aef36420>
APPRECIATING NATURE
Compassion is the heart that never stops loving others. It is like a wellspring that never runs dry. #<Author:0x00005560aef0d188>
COMPASSION
Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience... It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it. #<Author:0x00005560aefcce20>
MINDFULNESS
When you get in a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. #<Author:0x00005560aef95830>
OVERCOMING
We need not think alike to love alike. #<Author:0x00005560af035448>
LOVE
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