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Your life isn't meant to be a checklist given by others. Give yourself permission to experience life beyond accomplishing something. It's a delicate balance of achieving goals and being present to enjoy the moment. Do good and feel alive.
Spread Cheer / Motivational Quotes (@spreadcheer1)unverifiedPost attributed to @spreadcheer1 (user-supplied transcription)

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I learned that assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; and that oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.
Booker T. WashingtondisputedUp from Slavery·1901

Attribution contested

Circulated everywhere as if you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else, which appears in none of Washington's books, addresses or letters. This is the sentence in Up from Slavery it compresses. The paraphrase is not unfair, but it is not a quotation, and it drops the second half -- the claim that oppressing the unfortunate makes the oppressor weak -- which is the part he was actually arguing.

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Dreams without goals are just dreams, and they ultimately fuel disappointment.
Denzel WashingtonunverifiedCommencement address, Dillard University (video)·2015

Unverified attribution

Wording taken from a viewer's transcription of the video. This is the Dillard address, not the Pennsylvania one: Dillard has published no transcript we could reach — its site returns 403 to scripts and its archived pages are announcements rather than text — so the phrasing, including the comma, is unconfirmed.

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Yet is it far better to light the candle than to curse the darkness.
Eleanor RooseveltmisattributedThe Invincible Strategy, in The Supreme Conquest and Other Sermons Preached in America, by W. L. Watkinson·1907

Wrongly attributed

Adlai Stevenson used a version of this in his eulogy for Eleanor Roosevelt in 1962, and it has been hers ever since; it is also sold as Confucius and as an old Chinese proverb. It is neither. It is W. L. Watkinson, the English Methodist preacher, in a sermon called The Invincible Strategy, printed in 1907 -- and he presents it as a saying already in circulation rather than as his own coinage. What is certain is that this is the earliest printed appearance anybody has produced, and it predates Roosevelt's public life.

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Sometimes you have to make a snap decision to change your life. Change the people you spend time with. Change the places you visit. Change routine. Staying the same won't create a new version of you. The right room and right advice can do miracles for your life.
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Think good thoughts. Protect your mind. What your mind consumes shapes your thoughts. Your thoughts lead your actions. Your actions change your life for better or worse. Get rid of what drains you. Embrace what pushes you towards your dream life.
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When you take ownership of your future, things start happening. Excuses build bridges to nowhere. Don't wait for someone to rescue you. Don't wait for circumstances to be perfect. Be messy, be slow but be consistent. That's the secret to making it big.
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If a man knows the wherefore of his existence, then the manner of it can take care of itself.
Viktor E. FranklmisattributedThe Twilight of the Idols, by Friedrich Nietzsche (trans. Anthony M. Ludovici)·1911

Wrongly attributed

Usually quoted as Frankl's own: he who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Frankl never claimed it. He quotes Nietzsche in Man's Search for Meaning, and the line is Nietzsche's, from Twilight of the Idols in 1888. The familiar English wording matches no published translation of the period; Ludovici's 1911 rendering is the one above.

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