Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.” — Martha Beck

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Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.” — David McCullough Jr.

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Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.” — Bliss Carman

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A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.” — Albert Einstein

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Joy is the best makeup.” — Anne Lamott

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. If you block it, it will never exist through any other medium. It will be lost. The world will never have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how it compares to other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.” — Martha Graham

In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.”

— John Churton Collins

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My home is not a place, it is people.” ―Lois McMaster Bujold

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.” ―Ben Stein

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When you do things from your soul you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” — Rumi

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