Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself -- Rumi

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I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don’t respect. – Sandra Cisneros

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The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass. — Maya Angelou

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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

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You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you. ― Frederick Buechner

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To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people’s trash. — Bill Nye

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I think of reading as like a medicine cabinet. – Sandra Cisneros

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