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A regret for the mistakes of yesterday must not, however, blind us to the tasks of today.

Our supreme task is the resumption of our onward, normal way.

If you want to change the world, you must be your very best in the darkest moment.

If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.

If you want to change the world get over being a sugar cookie and keep moving forward.

Sometimes no matter how well you prepare or how well you perform you still end up as a sugar cookie. It’s just the way life is sometimes.

If you want to change the world don’t ever, ever ring the bell.

If you want to change the world, start singing when you’re up to your neck in mud.

We knew that if one man could rise above the misery then others could as well.

There are a lot of sharks in the world. If you hope to complete the swim you will have to deal with them.

But if you want to change the world, don’t be afraid of the circuses.

Life is filled with circuses. You will fail. You will likely fail often. It will be painful. It will be discouraging. At times it will test you to your very core.

Know that life is not fair and that you will fail often.

The spirit of liberty is the sovereign balm for every injury which our institutions may receive.

Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up.

First comes the very extremity of distress, then follows unexpected relief.

The fatigue gets worse up to a certain critical point, when gradually or suddenly it passes away, and we are fresher than before.

We have evidently tapped a level of new energy, masked until then by the fatigue-obstacle usually obeyed.

Most of us may learn to push the barrier farther off, and to live in perfect comfort on much higher levels of power.

We live subject to arrest by degrees of fatigue which we have come only from habit to obey.

Dark pictures and gloomy forebodings are worse than useless.