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“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” Walt Disney

“Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.” Jim Henson

“An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.” Margaret Atwood

“A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.” Margaret Atwood

“You have only one life to live and it mustn’t be wronged.” Anton Chekhov

“It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.” Robert Bly

“A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.” Richard Bach

“I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.” Martha Washington

“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.” B. F. Skinner

“People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.” Hermann Hesse

“Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” Abraham Lincoln

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” Helen Keller

“You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you’re working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.” Isaac Asimov

“No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.” H. G. Wells

“The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly – that is what each of us is here for.” Oscar Wilde