Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself -- Rumi

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You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue. ―C. JoyBell C

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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass. — Maya Angelou

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1. As a child, we visited the San Juan Islands during the summer. Kayaking, big family meals, playing on the beach - great memories! —Zoe McLellan

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Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all. Amen, and come Lord Jesus. ― Frederick Buechner

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To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people’s trash. — Bill Nye

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Go where your best prayers take you. ― Frederick Buechner

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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

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The older I get, the more I'm conscious of ways very small things can make a change in the world. Tiny little things, but the world is made up of tiny matters. –Sandra-cisneros

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You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.

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