When you decide to be the best
you can be, don’t be surprised
if the circle of people you
want to spend your time with
becomes smaller.
Domonique Bertolucci
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And tel...
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Forgive them anyway.
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you can be unless you know
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You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
an...
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Before your time.
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be gentle with yourself.
you don’t just live
in this world
or ...
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Refuse to fall down
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__________________
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understand the power and ...
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takes courage. You need to own
your decisions and have the
...
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I don't think it can be done.
The world is sacred....
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If you associate yourself with a change maker,
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Charity Organizations?
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call me
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Know your voice.
Recognize you when you
first come 'ro...
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1. Be impeccable with your word.
2. Don’t take anything personally.<...
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If ...
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Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.
No...
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Your Voice
Your Reason To Be
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If you understand yourself you are illuminated.
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if you do not read,
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so simply
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or about pain
that even
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but who i am when i'm by your side.
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I swear, I’ll find you A...
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Watch the turmoil of beings
but contemplate their return.
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Well I guess I'll make my own way
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You can close ...
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like all others before and after,
dedicated to you.
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in this game of love,
if it means You
will be the winner.
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if you go,
And I should want to die,
there's nothing I'd be saved by
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GERMANY KENT If an eagle gives you a feather, keep it safe.
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we bow to the
feet of anything
we find riveting,
the mind rises to
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Door to my peace
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I see you as my pr...
AMIT HOWARD
You Chose
You chose.
You chose.
You chose.
You cho...
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You bite your nails,
And laugh when you're nervous.
You p...
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They will call you selfish and mean,
They don’t know your s...
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and—so does—not healing.
Chose—how you spend your ...
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Become all that you want to be.
You should go as far as you can.
There i...
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...
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My spell is passion and it is ...
HEATHER ALEXANDER Good God, you don’t give up.”
“Nope.”
I laughed, couldn’t help it, and his
...
J. LYNN The most important
commitment you will ever make
is to being the best you can be.
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'You know,' she said, 'when you say stuff like t...
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Walking through the ruins
on your way to work
that do not lo...
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If you want to feel old...then it's blue rins...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS No!
I don’t love you!
I just like you, a little.
Your lips are sweet,
an...
ZORICA SAVRON When your afraid of something
you hide behind a mask.
It might be to protect yourself,
KRIS HARTE I will take your heart.
I will take your soul out of your body
As though I were God.
...
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