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• I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you…
• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
• When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
• My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and…
• While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything…
• Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
• My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school,…
• Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
• I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw…
• If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
• Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice…
• Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

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