The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Always do what you are afraid to do.

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• A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

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• Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

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