Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly the way you are.

— Ariana Grande

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Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

— Mary Tyler Moore

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Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths. 

— Drew Barrymore

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We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters most is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.

— J.K. Rowling

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Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.

— Mary Lou Retton

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We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.

— Kavita Ramdas

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Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

— Melody Beattie

What is one small joy you are grateful for this week?