We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives, not looking for flaws, but for potential.

Ellen Goodman

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It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.

Daniel Kahneman

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

Hubert Humphrey

Do not spend your youth, wandering, lost in your field of daydreams; you may wake up spending the rest of your life stranded on the path of regretful nightmares.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

Robert F. Kennedy

You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way.

Beauty once seemed to me to be an accident of nature... But now that I can see my life on my face, I realize we earn the way we end up looking. Time, it seems, gives us all a chance to really be beautiful.

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