You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ 

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You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. 

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You must do the things you think you cannot do. 

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When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. 

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With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. 

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Women are like teabags. We don’t know our true strength until we are in hot water! 

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You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself. 

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You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn’t mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority. 

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What one has to do usually can be done. 

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What you don’t do can be a destructive force. 

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