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I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. Charles Dickens, David Copperfield.
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?" Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spagheti and whistling along to an FM broadcast of the overture to Rossini's 'The Thieving Magpie', which had to be the perfect music for cooking pasta. Haruki Murakami, The Windup Bird Chronicle.
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. Maya Angelou
I took it from https://edubirdie.com/blog/social-issues-topics
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. Ernest Hemingway
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. Franklin D. Roosevelt