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- Confidence doesn't come from thinking you're perfect or flawless. That's arrogance. Confidence comes from appreciating the beauty of your texture.
- My advice to anyone is to figure out what you're good at - what it is that you love doing the most in life -…
- One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant…
- Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am, and maybe you…
- We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa Clause myth and got nothing but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. 'Years from…
- Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.
- Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, you'll still have your stars.
- The way Mom saw it, women should let menfolk do the work because it made them feel more manly. That notion only made sense if…
- If you had weak eyes, they needed exercise to get strong. Glasses were like crutches. They prevented people with feeble eyes from seeing the world…
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