"This fork in the road happens over a hundred times a day, and it's the choices that you make that will determine the shape of your life."
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"Anything that is within someone else's reach is also within yours. Set your goals no matter how impossible they may seem. Then focus on what is between you and that goal. And then, simply take out the obstacles as they come."
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"In the years ahead of me, I learned that the world is actually filled with people ready to tell you how likely something is, and what it means to be realistic. But what I have also learned is that no one, no one truly knows what is possible until they go and do it."
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"There's always a way through things if you work hard enough and look close. It all depends on your level of determination."
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"Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never."
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"But avoidance allows you to believe that you're making all kinds of strides when you're not."
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"You are bigger than your circumstances."
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"One point of view gives a one dimensional world."
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"I've learned in my life that you really don't know what's possible until you're already doing it."
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"When you go back to your environment and you deal with employees... do you inspire people or do you make them feel fear? Do you make them feel confident or incompetent? I think that distinction really marks the leader."
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"Life has a way of doing that; one minute everything makes sense, the next, things change. People get sick. Families break apart, your friends could close the door on you."
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"If I want to be a loving, generous, giving person, I'm not going to test the waters. I'm simply going to be a loving, generous, giving person."
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"Life takes on the meaning that you give it."
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"Success creates opportunities for other people."
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"I'd been living on the streets of New York, and I was sleeping at my friends' houses, sometimes in the subway."
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"My mother used to sit at the foot of my bed and she would share her dreams with me."
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"If I had a magic wand, I would live in a building in New York, big enough so my friends, my family could all have apartments in it. We'd raise our kids in the same space and have backyard barbecues and get old and fat together."
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"Many nights, I longed for home. But it occurred to me as I struggled for a feeling of comfort and safety: I have no idea where home is."
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"... In our family, if you said the words 'I feel,' they better be followed with 'hungry' or 'cold'. Because we didn't get personal, that's just how it was."
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"The lesson that people can't give me what they don't have, and if there's anything I took from it, it was: okay, I don't really expect anyone to hand me anything. There's going to be me and the world."
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