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• Fate chooses our relationships; we choose our friends.
• It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way. Rollo May
• Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
  -- Mark Twai...
• We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God.
  We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mastery over yourself....
• We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God.
  We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mastery over yourself....
• Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
  Paul Valery...