If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

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"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."

- Marilyn Monroe

Ambition

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

- Marilyn Monroe

Creativity

""Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.""

- Marilyn Monroe

Happiness

"The real lover is a man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space."

- Marilyn Monroe

Love

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."

- Marilyn Monroe

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"You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute."

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"You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind. To begin, begin."

- Gordon B. Hinckley

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"Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already onstage."

Taking Risks

"If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more."

- Erica Jong

Taking Risks

"If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever."

- Thomas Aquinas

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