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We have to get the word out that mental illnesses can be diagnosed and treated, and almost everyone suffering from mental illness can live meaningful lives in their communities.

Rosalynn Carter

Once you accept the fact that you’re not perfect, then you develop some confidence.
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Acceptance Confidence Development Fact Perfection Yourself
There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home.
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Goodness Home Important Safety Security
Times of upheaval require not just more leadership but more leaders. People at all organizational levels, whether anointed or self-appointed, must be empowered to share leadership responsibilities.
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Empowerment Leadership Level Organizational Responsibility Share Time
Don’t worry about polls, but if you do, don’t admit it.
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Politics Worry Yourself
If you look at suicides, most of them are connected to depression. And the mental health system just fails them. It’s so sad. We know what to do. We just don’t do it.
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Connection Failure Suicide System Yourself
If we have not achieved our early dreams, we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old. If we have accomplished what we set out to do in our youth, we need not weep like Alexander the Great that we have no more worlds to conquer.
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Achievement Conquer Dreams Old World Youth
We have to get the word out that mental illnesses can be diagnosed and treated, and almost everyone suffering from mental illness can live meaningful lives in their communities.
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Community Live Mental Suffering Treat Word
Early diagnosis is so important because the earlier a mental illness can be detected, diagnosed and treatment can begin, the better off that person can be for the rest of his or her life.
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Beginning Early Himself Life Person Treat
Kindness is the connection that links us all together and strengthens the bonds within our communities, neighborhoods, and families.
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Bond Connection Family Kindness Strength Togetherness
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
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Greatness Journey Leadership Necessary
I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did, so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do.
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Criticism Learning Myself Politics
You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don’t win, at least you can be satisfied that you’ve tried. If you don’t accept failure as a possibility, you don’t set high goals, you don’t branch out, you don’t try – you don’t take the risk.
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Acceptance Best Failure Possible Risk Satisfaction Try Win Yourself
First ladies throughout our history have been expected to be adoring wives and perfect mothers.
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Expectation History Mom Perfection Wife
Without volunteers, we’d be a nation without a soul.
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Nation Soul Volunteer Willing
Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.
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Better Care People Place World Yourself
There are only four kinds of people in the world – those who have been caregivers, those who are caregivers, those who will be caregivers and those who will need caregivers.
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Care Generosity Kind People Willing World

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