Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin. Now, they are so subtle, they can milk you with two notes. They can make you feel like they told you the whole universe. But I don't know that yet. All I got now is strength. Maybe if I keep singing, maybe I'll get it.

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"Half moon, night time sky, seven stars, heaven’s eyes. Seven songs on seven seas, just to bring all your sweet love home to me."

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"One of these mornings you're gonna rise up singing, you're gonna spread your wings, child, and take to the sky"

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"Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got."

- Janis Joplin

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"I’m one of those regular weird people."

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"Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got."

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"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

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"The pain you feel today will show itself as strength tomorrow."

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"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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"Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don’t to achieve what others won’t."

- Henry Rollins

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