My advice: Don’t waste so much time worrying about your skin or your weight. Develop what you put your hands on in the world.

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"Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials."

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"Giving voice to characters that have no other voice—that’s the great worth of what we do."

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Compassion

"Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head."

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"Don't waste so much time thinking about how much you weigh. There is no more mind-numbing, boring, idiotic, self-destructive diversion from the fun of living."

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"The formula of happiness and success is just being actually yourself in the most vivid way you possibly can."

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"True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline."

- Mortimer J. Adler

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"You will never always be motivated. You have to learn to be disciplined."

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"Do not think about other things, there is only one thing you can do. So master that one thing. Do not forget. What you must imagine is always that you, yourself, are the strongest. You do not need outside enemies. For you, the one you have to fight is none other than your own image."

- Archer

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"You need to accept the fact that you’re not the best and have all the will to strive to be better than anyone you face."

- Roronoa Zoro

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"Take a page from the dragonfly's book – be vibrant and let your true colors shine"

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