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Find something that you love. Something that gets you so excited you can’t wait to get out of bed in the morning. Forget about money. Be happy.
Chris GardnerChris Gardner Do something that you love. Whatever you’re going to do is going to be tough enough. Find something that gets you so excited that the sun can’t come up early enough in the morning because you want to go do your thing.
Chris GardnerChris Gardner But if you don’t take the necessary steps to make them happen, dreams are just mirages that mess with your head!
Chris GardnerChris Gardner No one ever laid out the sequence of events that led to my mother being prosecuted and imprisoned for alleged welfare fraud.
Chris GardnerChris Gardner If you have a dream, you’ve got to protect it.
Chris GardnerChris Gardner The secret to success: find something you love to do so much, you can’t wait for the sun to rise to do it all over again.
Chris GardnerChris Gardner There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine, or finance, could be used to accelerate learning and other arenas, too.
Chris GardnerChris Gardner You can only depend on yourself. The cavalry aint coming.
Chris GardnerChris Gardner This part of my life, this little part, is called happiness.
Chris GardnerChris Gardner I just wanted to make a million dollars. But I couldn’t sing and I couldn’t play ball, so I said to my mother, ‘How am I going to make a million dollars?’ And she said to me, ‘Son, if you believe you can do it, you will.’
Chris GardnerChris Gardner It’s okay to fail; it’s not okay to quit.
Chris GardnerChris Gardner Then again, what seems like nothing in the eyes of the world, when properly valued and put to use, can be among the greatest riches.
Chris GardnerChris Gardner The world is your oyster. It’s up to you to find the pearls.
Chris GardnerChris Gardner Walk that walk and go forward all the time. Don’t just talk that talk, walk it and go forward. Also, the walk didn’t have to be long strides; baby steps counted too. Go forward.
Chris GardnerChris Gardner If you want something, go get it. Period.
Chris GardnerChris Gardner Claim ownership of your dreams.
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In this wilderness, Mankind is the animal I fear.
Addison SchmittAddison Schmitt The irony is that he broke the only person he never wanted to hurt.
Krishan PandeyKrishan Pandey I will wait, I am waiting, and I will love you with all the love I posses until this body is ash and I begin my search for you again.
Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson Nothing is permanent not even your pain.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Do not insist me to let you go, you come half hearted like a crescent moon, and you go heart-filled like a full moon which glows.
Nikita GandhiNikita Gandhi I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Do not measure yourself by success, failure, or a degree. Measure your life by the dreams you have.
Natalie MooneyNatalie Mooney
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It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale.
Annie DillardAnnie Dillard Bear sorrows and calamities patiently, otherwise you will never be happy.
Imam AliImam Ali My happiness is my reflection on the suffering during my journey and knowing that I never quit nor was I guided by anybody on this earth.
David GogginsDavid Goggins There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
EuripidesEuripides Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
Richard DawkinsRichard Dawkins You can’t buy happiness.
Kurt CobainKurt Cobain Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.
Imam AliImam Ali I’m on my way to happiness, where I can find some peace and rest.
Peter ToshPeter Tosh
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