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Why give up before we try?

Alicia Keys

From the beginning, I’ve had to juggle and weigh the silly things people say – and I’ve learnt that they’re meaningless, and they’re mostly inaccurate. So I don’t worry about it, because there’s nothin’ for me to deal with.
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Accurate Beginning Deal Learning Myself People
Failure isn’t an option. I’ve erased the word fear from my vocabulary and I think when you erase fear you can’t fail.
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Failure Option Thinking Vocabulary Word Yourself
We have the potential to help people out of poverty, out of disease, out of slavery and out of conflict. Too often we turn the other way because we think there’s nothing we can do.
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Conflict Help People Potential Poverty Thinking
Risk the fall to know how it feels to fly.
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Fall Feeling Fly Risk Yourself
No one will take care of you if you don’t take care of yourself.
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Care Self Love Yourself
I’m not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I’m thick. I like my body.
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Appearance Body Myself Shame
Yes I was burned but I called it a lesson learned. Mistake overturned so I call it a lesson learned. My soul has returned so I call it a lesson learned…another lesson learned.
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Burn Learning Lesson Myself Return
I’ve been able to find a lot of what I’ve not had before: freedom, bravery, fearlessness. It’s empowering to find those things.
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Brave Empowerment Fear Freedom Myself
Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?
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Goodness Myself World
You can’t really compare people. That’s one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned, because comparing yourself to someone else really stops you from being who you are.
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Big Compare Lesson People Stop Yourself
I’m very happy with my body.
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Acceptance Body Happiness Myself Self Love
I think that marriage is beautiful. And if it’s a partnership with someone you love, then it really is beautiful. Yeah, I think that marriage does work.
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Beautiful Love Marriage Myself Relationship Thinking Work
It’s when we become afraid of everything and worried about everything that you are never going to reach your highest potential.
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Afraid Potential Reach Worry Yourself
If we took the time to learn more about different places and people, perhaps we would have more empathy for each other.
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Different Each Other Empathy Learning Time
We’re all going to change. Otherwise, it’s boring. Who wants to stay the damn same all their life?
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Boredom Change Happiness Myself Stay
I don’t have a ton of friends, but the friends I have are great ones. I don’t have huge family, but the family I have is a great one.
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Family Friendship Greatness Huge Myself

Why give up before we try?

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