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This is my real secret to being a joyful person: I make my life easy. I spend more time being grateful for what I have instead of focusing on what isn’t working. I no longer believe that people have to do things my way and that I have to be perfect.

Ellen DeGeneres

I care passionately about equal rights [and] animal rights.
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Animal Care Rights
I’m sure there’s somebody out there who doesn’t like Betty White because she’s short and has white hair.
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Hair Somebody White
I love furniture. And I thought, why are we not seeing who’s making the cool new coffee table and these new designs that come out?
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Coffee Design Tables
It makes a big difference in your life when you stay positive.
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Bigs Differences Positive Stay
We put the wrong emphasis on what beauty is and what health is. Health is being vibrant and having energy and being happy.
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Emphasis Energy Happy Vibrant
So be who you really are. Embrace who you are. Literally. Hug yourself. Accept who you are. Unless you’re a serial killer.
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Hug Killers Serial Killer
It would be horrible to live with someone who didn’t like the same things you like.
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Horrible Like Things
It’s hard when paparazzi are photographing every single thing you do. I’m sure a lot of people made mistakes – they just were not documented the way they are now.
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Mistakes People Photographing Way
True beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are. True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass.
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Eye Hair Inspiring Related Women
I wanted to have money; I wanted to be special; I wanted people to like me; I wanted to be famous.
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People Special Wanted
I know that experts say you’re more likely to get hurt crossing the street than you are flying, but that doesn’t make me any less frightened of flying. If anything, it makes me more afraid of crossing the street.
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Experts Flying Frightened Hurt Less
The world is filled with negativity. I want people to watch me and think, “I feel good, and I’m going to make somebody else feel good today.
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Feel Good People Thinking
I believe one day a ‘ban on gay marriage’ will sound totally ridiculous. In the meantime, I will continue to speak out for equality for all of us.
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Believe Gay Out Speaks
Emote. It’s okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling.
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Feelings Okay Thinking
I don’t really ever live my life in fear. I really live my life in gratitude and feeling positive for the most part.
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Feelings Gratitude Life Living
We all feel like idiots at one time or another. Even if we feel we’re cool 98 percent of the time, that 2-percent doofus is poised to take over our bodies without any warning.
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Ironic Mistake Warning

This is my real secret to being a joyful person: I make my life easy. I spend more time being grateful for what I have instead of focusing on what isn’t working. I no longer believe that people have to do things my way and that I have to be perfect.

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This is my real secret to being a joyful person: I make my life easy. I spend more time being grateful for what I have instead of focusing on what isn’t working. I no longer believe that people have to do things my way and that I have to be perfect.

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