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It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now.
— Epictetus
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
— J.C. Hare and A.W. Hare
Still, even the little life/ is susceptible to greatness.
— Barbara Holender
Do we dare to be / ourselves? This is the / question that counts.
— Pablo Casals
I knew life / Began where I stood in the dark, / Looking out into the light...
— Yusef Komunyakaa
We are not born all at once, but by bits.
— Mary Antin
To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
-- Kurt Vonnegut
It is not only by the questions we have answered that progress may be measured, but also by those we are still asking.
-- Freda Adler
My future depends mostly on myself.
-- Paul Robeson

What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person.
— John Boorman

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