Life is hard but:

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. – Joshua J. Marine

Never regret a day in your life. Good days give you happiness and  bad days give you experience. – Unknown

You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today. – Will Rogers

Without rain, nothing grows. Learn to embrace the storms of your life. – Anonymous

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I can think about others,

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, “What are you doing for others?”
 – Martin Luther King Jr.

Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life. – Roy T Bennett

Wherever life plants you, bloom with grace. – French proverb

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be optimistic,

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be. – Abraham Lincoln

Develop an “attitude of gratitude.” Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you. – Brian Tracy

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. – Winston Churchill

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and keep moving forward.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. – Walt Disney

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. – Napoleon Hill

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. – Michael Jordan

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. – Albert Einstein

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one. – Dolly Parton

Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. – St. Francis of Assisi

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Because,

The best time for new beginnings is now. – Anonymous

You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. – C.S. Lewis

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose. – Dr. Suess

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things may change.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. – Anne Frank

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.
– Maya Angelou

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. – Wayne Dyer

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. – Friedrich Nietzsche

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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