"Don't envy someone else's gift. Discover your own."

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Source : Tavis Smiley (2013). “Fail Up: 20 Lessons on Building Success from Failure”, p.133, Hay House, Inc

Tavis Smiley

“Madness ends sometimes. The Gods decree it, not man.”
“In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.”
“The trust that we put in ourselves makes us feel trust in others.”
“My dad is a big extrovert - he's a doctor - but he always loved [William] Shakespeare and he took us to tons of theater.”
“Social media is critical to our work. We partner with digital outreach to humanize AIDS & tell stories.”
“The gardens of my youth were fragrant gardens and it is their sweetness rather than their patterns of their furnishings that I now most clearly recall.”

Source : Louise Beebe Wilder (1990). “The fragrant path”, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
“Do everything as if He were dwelling in us. Thus we shall be His temples and He will be within us as our God - as He actually is.”
“When you see someone you love with somebody else, your heart kind of falls to the ground.”

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