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Believe that life is done testing you and will start giving you more than it took away from you. The wait might have been long but it's about to be over now.
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If things didn't go as planned, it doesn't mean you failed. If everything doesn't work out, that doesn't make life less meaningful. Great people also make mistakes. They just learn from it and never quit. Some of your darkest chapters will lead you to the most sparkling chapters.
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Life is beautiful. There are a few hiccups on the road but you have always been a warrior. You demonstrated courage in all the tough times. You can do it again. The spectacular view at the end of trials will be worth all your efforts. Unexpected blessings await.
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Your struggles are making way for rewards. Something awesome is lined up for you. Believe that the best blessings you can receive will show up. Time is not running out. The future holds more gifts than the grief held in the past. You aren't too late for your dreams.
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Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results! I know several thousand things that won't work.
Thomas A. EdisondisputedEdison: His Life and Inventions, by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin·1910

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The famous form -- I have not failed, I have just found ten thousand ways that won't work -- has no source in Edison. The earliest record of the remark is this one, in the authorised 1910 biography, and it is a colleague's recollection of a conversation, not Edison writing. Note what changes in the retelling: several thousand becomes ten thousand, and a man cheerfully counting negative results becomes a man defending himself against failure.

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