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“It is only when you can admit you may be wrong and are willing to grapple with uncomfortable ideas that you stand to grow.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“A woman in labor never asks, “Why me?” because she knows both the cause of her suffering and its effect, and that sense of reason and purpose gives her the capacity to endure it.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“My best teachers showed me respect by refusing to share in my low expectations.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Imagine living your life so indelibly that others remember your smile long after they’ve forgotten your name!”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Be grateful for pain. Don’t ignore it or deny it. Don’t anesthetize yourself from it. Swallow it and make it a part of you.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“A teacher casts his work into the wind, knowing not where it will be blown, in hopes that a seed will land somewhere it can take root and outlive the one who cast it.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“What right do I have to the blessings I’ve received? None. They are not a right—they are a gift.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Your identity is formed in part by your past, but only in part, and not the most important part. Your past is merely a starting point.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Your aim is not just what you train your eye on; it is how you train your eye.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“When answering life's big questions, it doesn’t even matter what you say your answers are; what matters is what you do.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“What discouraged me most from the goals of my youth were not my failures but my successes, that they proved so hollow.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Time spent under a burden is often time well spent.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“Learn to mock your influence on the world or wait for the world to do it for you; you won’t have to wait long.”

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Book:The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

Source: The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

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