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I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same.—Martha Graham

We always hope for the easy fix: the one simple change that will erase a problem in a stroke. But few things in life work this way. Instead, success requires making a hundred small steps go right--one after the other, no slipups, no goofs, everyone pitching in.—Atul Gawande

It is a blessing to be able to keep putting one foot in front of the other, to be in a position to make the climb and to know the summit is still up ahead.—Oprah

If you want to change this world and make it a better place, it has to start with you. You is all that you have. Start valuing yourself.—Suze Orman

The only way to have a home is to make a home. Spend time in it. Invest your energy. Be here.—Brooke Berman

When you really consider the everyday things around you, they start to seem like tiny miracles.—Amy Shearn

It’s rather nice to think of oneself as a sailor bending over the map of one’s mind and deciding where to go and how to go. The great thing to remember is we can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough.—Katherine Mansfield

I never change, I simply become more myself.—Joyce Carol Oates

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace—only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.—Anne Lamott

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things.—Norman Vincent Peale

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