Have patience with all things, but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You’re perfectly valuable, creative, worthwhile person simply because you exist. And no amount of triumphs and tribulations can ever change that. Unconditional self-acceptance is the core of a peaceful mind.
St. Francis de Sales

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Lao Tse

Let us move on, and step out boldly, though it be into the night, and we can scarcely see the way.
Charles B. Newcomb

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you always got.
Karl Albrecht

Setting boundaries doesn't keep others out. It defines where your life begins.
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London
 

Tears are about strength, not weakness. They're about being open, expressing your feelings.
Unknown

 

If you want to know your future, look at what you are doing this moment.
Tibetan saying

I find the great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving - we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying small stones.
Chinese proverb

 

I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese proverb

There's no way to grow without taking a few risks.
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We can’t fear the past. Fear is a future thing. And since the future’s all in our heads, fear must be a head thing.
Tom Payne

In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Andre Gide

No matter what happened, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.
Dave Barry

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
Herodotus

Learning to let go begins with understanding why you've been hanging on.
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The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
Charles Du Bos

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice Walker

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
Katharine Graham