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The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

_🖋️ Steven Spielberg

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If you let cloudy water settle,
it will become clear.
If you let your upset mind settle,
your course will also become clear.

_🖋️ The Buddha

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Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

_🖋️ Albert Einstein

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

~ Brian Tracy

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Life is a paradox, as expressed by Charles Dickens in his 'Tale Of Two Cities' :

"It was the best of times. It was the worst of times."

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MERRY CHRISTMAS & JOY TO THE WORLD!

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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

_🖋️ Francis Bacon

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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

_🖋️ Marie Curie

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Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

_🖋️ Frederick Buechner

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Fallen leaves on the ground are the golden song of immortal creativity.

_🖋️ Amit Ray

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science.

_🖋️ Albert Einstein

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Courage doesn't always soar.
Sometimes courage is the
quiet voice at the end
of the day saying:
"I will try again tomorrow."

📸 By Ionut Caras / By C. Schmitz
✍️ Mary Radmacher

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Those who spend their time
looking for the faults in others
usually make no time to
correct their own. ~ Art Jonak

📸Left: Pix by dpf_photoart on Instagram.
Right: San Diego by Jon via banshy.

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The integrity and moral courage
of the upright will guide them,
but the hypocrisy of the treacherous
will destroy them.

📷Left by Melissa McMasters. Right by Lara Pinrule.

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The state of your life is nothing
more than a reflection of your
state of mind.
The choices you have made
reflects your state of mind.
If you are not happy with your current
state of mind or life, make changes.

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Education is an admirable thing,
but it is well to remember from
time to time that nothing that is
worth knowing can be taught.
~ Oscar Wilde

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How beautiful to find a heart
that loves you without asking
you for anything,
but to be okay.
~ K. Gibran

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Good people don't need laws
to tell them to act responsibly.
Bad people will find a way
around the laws. ~ Plato

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