No matter how much you love the person, you cannot change them. You may influence them; but at the end of the day, they must decide for themselves.

Robert E. Baines Jr.

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

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A good goal is like a strenuous exercise, it makes you stretch.

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.

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