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Words cannot change reality, but they can change how people perceive reality.
Words create filters through which people view the world around them.

Forget what you regret, regret what you forget.

Unfuck yourself, be who you were before all the stuff happened that dimmed your fucking shine.

Never let your computer know that you're in a hurry.
Computers can smell fear. they slow down if they know that you are running out of time.

Comfort is a drug, once you get used to it, it becomes addicting.
Give a weak man consistent sex, good food, cheap entertainment, and he will throw his ambition right out the window.
The comforts zone is where dreams go to die.

You live most of your life inside your head. make sure it's a nice place to be.

Don't study because you need to, study because knowledge is power.
Study because they can never take it away from you.
study because you want to know more.
Study because it enhances you.
Study because it grows you.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore He made mothers.

I don't fix problems. I fix my thinking, then problems fix themselves.

Some people will hate you, not because you're right, but because you're different.

- Anonymous-

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

-Andre Gide-

A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.

-William Blake-

Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.

-Friedrich Engels-

We are often unable to tell people what they need to know because they want to know something else.

-George Macdonald-

We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.

-W.G Sebald -

By 2020, we want the equivalent of the Paris agreement, but for nature.

-Marco Lambertini, WWF-

I learned that if you include women in leadership in your team, the level of intelligence increases.

-Mandulo Ambrose Dlamini, PM of Eswatini-

The African Continental Free Trade Agreement is going to be the greatest opportunity for economies on the continent to generate growth through trade.

-Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa-

The gig economy takes us back to Dickensian times when children were working in mines for long hours. That's wasn't technology, that was because of our governments and the fat cats of Silicon Valley.

-Winnie Byanyima, Oxfam International-

It is a very hard thing to let go, especially when it is something you have lost and you are very aware of it.
A consistently continuing practice of letting things go would make our life feels so much lighter.

-Yuli Keene-

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