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"A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push it."
"One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others."
"I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward."
"Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!"
"Power isn’t just about going forward. It’s about not letting anything hold you back."
"We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."
"Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore."
"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past."
"Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods."
"I always like to look on the optimistic side of life."
"When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do."
"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see."
"Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort."
"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now."
"Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future."
"I told myself, Malala, you have already faced death. This is your second life. Don't be afraid — if you are afraid, you can't move forward."
"It is safe to be me. I love life. I am always safe and secure. I move forward in life with joy and ease. All is well in my world."
"No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy."
"When you actively engage in gradually refining yourself, you retreat from your lazy ways of covering yourself or making excuses. Instead of feeling a persistent current of low-level shame, you move forward by using the creative possibilities of this moment, your current situation."
"I'm always moving forward."