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Robert Finley Interview: Ready for the Race

BY JORDAN MAINZER

At the risk of sounding cliché, it’s truly been a long, often hard road for blues and soul singer Robert Finley. On his new album Sharecropper’s Son (out tomorrow on Easy Eye Sound), he delves into his past. Ever since he hooked up with Dan Auerbach on 2017′s Goin Platinum!, Finley’s 60-year backstory has been more often chronicled in the mainstream, from being born and raised in Bernice, Louisiana and enlisting in the army as a teenager to suffering from a car accident, a divorce, and eventually ending his carpentry career after being deemed legally blind. And yes, he never gave up and eventually got lucky, being discovered busking by Music Maker Relief Foundation, touring, releasing an album, and eventually establishing a long-term collaborative relationship with Auerbach. Yet, until now, Finley hasn’t written about his early childhood, being raised along with his 7 siblings on a crop share in Louisiana.

Sharecropping refers to an agricultural legal arrangement where a landowner allows a tenant to use land in exchange for the share of the crops produced. It was a popular arrangement in the South from the Reconstruction to Jim Crow years following the abolishment of slavery; in reality, it was just another way for white Americans to maintain economic hegemony over Black Americans. “You get all the work, and the money never seems to come,” Finley told me over the phone in March from his home in Louisiana. “You always break even, and unless you own the farm, you really didn’t benefit. The checks from the cotton and from the corn didn’t come in your name.” In other words, Finley said, “Sharecroppers don’t get their share.”

Sharecropping was backbreaking, ��out in the hot red sun,” Finley sings on the album’s title track, “where the work is never done,” Auerbach’s blistering guitar and keyboards shimmering like rays from the sun. That said, Finley never realized how rough things truly were. “We were poor and didn’t know it,” he told me, citing the fact that because they were never hungry, he actually thought they were rich. “We had cows. We had chickens. We had hogs. We had fresh milk...It was like we were really living it up!” he said. Moreover, since many of their neighbors didn’t have direct access to fresh food, Finley’s father would share their bounty, from meat to vegetables. And, as the youngest son, he spent a lot of time helping his mom in the kitchen, citing that experience as partially inspiring his love of cooking to this day.

With Sharecropper’s Son, Finley is not trying to provide a list of lamentations. “It’s not a pity party,” he said. Even more than not going hungry, Finley cites his father’s optimism and generosity as formative. “My dad, in his religious beliefs, always hoped for better things and a brighter tomorrow...at the end of the day, after picking the cotton, or pulling the corn, we had plenty to give away. I don’t know if my dad sold some of it, but I think he did way more giving than selling.” Eventually, his father “wised up” and gave up sharecropping, and to this day, Finley’s brothers and sisters, despite only his oldest and youngest sister graduating from school, live comfortably. Notably, Finley also holds where he grew up near and dear to his heart. On “Country Child”, he juxtaposes harsh memories of cotton fields with yearning for the more comforting aspects of the South, especially country girls who “give you a country smile.” He mentioned me that the sparse population of rural Louisiana meant that he had to cross rivers just to see his neighbors, but also that folks in a many mile radius knew each other well, to the point that “you could get a couple boards and put them in front of your house, and someone would ask you what you’re doing with them.”

Above it all, Finley learned from both his father’s mindset and his own ability to overcome. “That’s why I tell my story / So you could start dreaming too,” he sings on “My Story”, while the hand percussion-laden “Starting To See” details the symbolic perspective on life he gained after losing his sight. And the album ends with spiritual gospel waltz “All My Hope”. Even better, Finley offers himself up for his listeners, on tracks like “I Can Feel Your Pain”, a church organ hymn where he empathizes with folks suffering from everything from COVID-19 to police brutality. It’s why he stays positive and keeps on keeping on. As someone who walked again after an accident despite the odds and who was “discovered’ so late in life, he doesn’t let practicality tamper his ambitions. “Like a horse in the stall,” he said, “I’m ready for the race.”

Below, read my conversation with Finely, edited for length and clarity.

Since I Left You: What made you want to sing more autobiographically this time around?

Robert Finley: I guess it was a chance to express myself and talk about these true stories. It’s not a made-up fantasy. It’s real life. It’s a chance to tell what life was like being a sharecropper. I was talking to all my siblings--4 brothers and 3 sisters, so there were 8 of us. My youngest sister doesn’t remember that much about it, but I’m the second youngest, so I wanted to get it out while all of us siblings would be able to form their opinion on it.

SILY: Would you say that the pandemic and the reckoning around the Black Lives Matter movement and subsequent increased awareness among White Americans gives these songs extra resonance?

RF: Yeah, I feel like it really opened the world’s eyes to what’s really going on. A lot of times, things happen we just don’t want to talk about, but that don’t stop ‘em from happening. In this case, it was a blessing to be writing about the right thing at the right time.

Even me and Dan Auerbach meeting, that was heaven intervention, too. What do a 30-something year old man and a 67-year old man have in common that can reach the people? It would have to be the music. Music is not a racial thing. Music, to us, is what comes from the heart and goes to the heart. If you need a blood donor or kidney donor, you’re not gonna ask what color the person was or what race the person was who’s giving the blood and giving the kidney. The whole purpose is for you to get the kidney and stay alive. Music is pretty much the same thing. Even if people can’t speak the language, they can feel the vibes of the music. There’s always somebody that can translate what the artist is really saying, but if the music is right, and the message in the music is right, it really doesn’t matter what color the person is or where they come from. It’s all about what comes from the heart and goes to the heart.

That’s where my songwriting comes in. To be able to reach out and touch people, because you want to give people something they can feel, that they can relate to. Not just a cool beat, not just a pretty voice, or whatever. The song needs to have a message that people can relate to. [And] as far as whether it’s soul, blues, country-western, jazz--if you’re looking for rock and roll, you can find it on the album, if you’re looking for soul, if you’re looking for country and western. It’s got a little of everything. That was the goal, and hopefully it’s being accomplished.

SILY: It seems like everybody who works with Dan has a musical connection and shared love of the same thing, even if not a widely known song or album. Do you feel that connection?

RF: Yeah. You gotta have something positive going even for Dan to reach out to you. Dan is looking for originality. People who want to stand out, not someone who’s trying to fit in. He looks for raw talent and gives them [opportunity] to express themselves. He’s open-minded and open to suggestions. He wants to know Robert Finely and produce Robert Finely and not to make me into something I’m not.

SILY: On “Country Child”, you talk about driving by a cotton field as an older man and still feeling your back hurting. But on the same song, you talk about preferring a country girl to raise a country child. Was it important for you to talk about that complex relationship with where you came from?

RF: Yeah. Don’t get me wrong--I don’t have a thing against city ladies--nobody in the city smiles because it makes them look tough and look hard. In the country, they wave at everybody whether they know ‘em or not. It doesn’t matter because everybody’s just saying hi! In the city, people live across the hall or across the street and don’t know their neighbors. It’s a whole different lifestyle. They don’t let their guard down. I was trying to keep it as real as possible.

The country girls, they just wave and smile, and if you say something they don’t agree with, they move on. But they’ll talk for a while, and they give you the benefit of the doubt.

Sometimes, if you’re too friendly, you can become a victim. If you go in the city smiling at everybody, they automatically know you’re not from the city. It’s not what they do. Unless you’re properly introduced, the person across the hall won’t talk to you or know you. It’s all about the approach. But I have learned that a smile is universal. It doesn’t matter what country you’re in. If you smile, people will smile back. If you’re open-minded and open-hearted, there’s always somebody. People will be glad to see somebody who looks at them and smiles. It breaks barriers and opens doors, even for people trying to look hard and tough.

SILY: On a couple songs on here, you improvised the lyrics, calling it “speaking from the heart.” Do you find that the way to go when the subject matter of the song is more difficult to talk about?

RF: Yeah, I mean if you stay real with everybody, it’s not a problem. You’ve gotta be open-minded and open-hearted. Put yourself in anybody’s situation. If you do that, you can see it from their point of view. With all the stuff that’s negative in the world today, it’s good to be positive every chance you get. It needs to be something people can relate to in the real world, or that people can say, “I’ve been through that or I’ve done that.” It’s not something that’s been made up like a fairytale. It has to have meaning where people can say, “Yep, I remember those days.”

I have 7 siblings. They all have to tell the story from their point of view. I try to leave the door open [in case] they want to tell what they remember, because they might remember something I don’t or had to experience something I didn’t. So when I was writing [the title track], I talked to them about it. In reality, I wanted it to be a true song that dealt with real life. Not made up. It needed to be something real they could identify with and their friends identify with where people could say, “I remember those days.” I also definitely didn’t want to make it seem harder than it already was. I only went back to the cotton field and put on the overalls for the video because nobody was wearing shiny shoes in the cotton field. They might have had a pair they put on on the weekend, but they definitely didn’t wear them in the field. The video could have been done anywhere, but to keep it real, I thought we needed to take it back to the country.

SILY: What did it mean for you to play with so many of the same session players as on Goin’ Platinum?

RF: It was like a family reunion. We toured together in the East Coast and West Coast. It was really an honor because everybody knew everybody. Everybody was excited to get back together because of the success of the first album. We built more or less what you could call a family relationship. Everybody knows everybody, and getting back in the studio, we got straight to work, what everybody came for. I don’t know how much time Dan spent with the musicians before I got there. When I got there, it was to lay the vocals down.

What I really noticed is that all the musicians played what they feel. They listened to the groove. And all the local musicians were in a 50-mile radius of each other. I could have them all together within a couple hours.

I was probably the youngest person in the band, besides Dan--I’m almost twice his age. When you’re with the band, it breaks out the best in you. Learning from their experience, everything they’ve done and who they’ve done it with, it makes you feel privileged to be in the company of them. They’re not on big ego trips and nobody has a big agenda. I’m easy. I don’t put no pressure on nobody--I just want the best out of everybody.

I love working with the Easy Eye Sound label because to me, I walk in, meet and greet, we break bread together, and we go to work. The work is hard, but I don’t know if you’d even call it work.

SILY: What’s the story behind the album art?

RF: The label mostly [does it] and asks me for approval. There’s not much I’d object to anyway. It’s a picture of me. I seldom walk outside even to go to the mailbox without my hat on. That’s one of my trademarks. I always wear hats or caps. I love the artwork. To be honest, I haven’t met the individual that did the artwork on it, but it very much had my approval when I saw it. Meeting everybody, sometimes it’s way down the line where I can actually meet them face to face.

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85+ Broken Heart Quotes to Prepare You for Moving On

Losing the one you love can be emotionally draining and hard to deal with. There’s no one way of getting over that person–everyone grieves differently. If you’re having feelings of sadness, anger, regret, anxiety or frustration, these all are normal but painful emotions to have during a heartache.

Reading inspiring quotes can help with expressing how you feel and where you want to be next. On your journey of moving on, it’s important to focus on what lies ahead instead of what used to be. We can’t change the past of a relationship but we can certainly plan for the future.

Here are some encouraging broken heart quotes to help you in your process of healing:

“It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.” – Sarah Teasdale

“I’d rather love a million times and have my heart broken every time, than hold a permanently empty heart forever.” – H.C. Paye

“Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.” – Patti Roberts

“Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart do not know how to laugh either.” – Golda Meir

“You can only lose what you cling to.” – Buddha

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” – Khalil Gibran

“The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.” – Barbara de Angelis

“All the broken hearts in the world still beat” – Ingrid Michaelson

“The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.” – Carroll Bryant

“Some think that holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it’s letting go.” – Hermann Hesse

“Sad endings are but the next happy beginning.” – Unknown

“It’s the emptiest, and yet the fullest of all human messages: Good-bye.” – Kurt Vonnegut

“One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.” – Romain Rolland

“A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.” – J.S.B. Morse

“Only time can heal a broken heart.” – Unknown

“Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.” – J.M. Barrie

“I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.“ – L.M. Montgomery

“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.” — Dalai Lama

“The past can’t hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.” – Alan Moore

“Just because we can’t be together doesn’t mean I don’t love you.” – Blair Waldorf

“The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.” – Shannon Alder

“If you love something, let it go.” – Unknown

“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.” – Josh Jameson

“You need to keep hurting until you realise you never needed to hurt in the first place.” – Kamand Kojouri

“Broken heart will turn into a stronger one within hope.” – Toba Bet

“Accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be.” – Sonia Ricotti

“You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.” – Unknown

“Maybe it’s not always about trying to fix something broken. Maybe it’s about starting over and creating something better.”

“You can only move on if you accept that it’s gone.” – Unknown

“I loved him, every inch of his being, but I realized one day; if loving him meant losing me, then loving him was not enough anymore.” – Nikki Rowe

“Trust, let go, and make room for what’s coming.” – Mandy Hale

“Time heals nothing unless you move along with it.” – Unknown

“Life breaks all of us sometimes, but some grow strong at broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway

“To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose is the next best.” – William Makepeace Thackeray

“Ever loved someone so much, you would do anything for them? Yeah, well make that someone yourself and do whatever the hell you want.” – Harvey Spencer

“Every happy couple has a breakup in their past.” – Unknown

“To lose a worthless friend is worthy of a testimony.” – Michael Bassey Johnson

“Sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can fall together.” – Marilyn Monroe

“You know it’s love when all you want is for that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.” – Julia Roberts

“Being with no one is better than being with the wrong one, because those who fly solo often have the strongest wings.”- Unknown

“Be with someone who knows exactly what they have when they have you. Not someone who will realize it when they’ve lost you.”

“Even on my weakest days I get a little bit stronger.” – Sarah Evans

“Goodbye is the last time I will hold you near.” – Celine Dion

“With time the pain eases, the body recovers and the brain figures out new ways to go on.” – Federico Chini

“If you’re brave enough to love someone, then you’re strong enough to get over them.” – Unknown

“And anything that might hurt me would just make me stronger in the end.” – Elizabeth Eulberg

“Thank you, next.” – Ariana Grande

“I still think of you every day. But I’m trying not to let it hurt me with the same intensity that it used to.” – Ranata Suzuki

“Healing yourself is connected with healing others.” – Yoko Ono

“Every breakup is an opportunity to do it right the next time.” – Cindy Chupack

“Love is the hardest habit to break and the most difficult to satisfy.” – Drew Barrymore

“Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.” – Guy Finley

“Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained. “ – Jonathan Harnisch

“Stars can’t shine without darkness.” – Kris Menace

“They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.”– Gabrielle Zevin

“Being in a relationship has the tendency to deceive one into believing that there is someone without whom one cannot live.”– Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary.” – Oscar Wilde

“Every single day, do something that makes your heart sing.” – Marcia Wieder

“Letting go has never been easy, but holding on can be as difficult. Yet strength is measured not by holding on, but by letting go.” – Len Santos

“In the process of letting go, you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.” – Deepak Chopra

“There are all kinds of ways for a relationship to be tested, even broken, some, irrevocably; it’s the endings we’re unprepared for.” – Katherine Owen

“It’s time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I’d much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.” – Ernie Harwell

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” – Mark Twain

“If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” – Paulo Coehlo

“There will be a time when you are forced to follow your heart away from someone you love.” – Ashly Lorenzana

“I know my heart will never be the same but I’m telling myself I’ll be okay.” – Sara Evans

“I thought I lost something this summer, but I just realized, I never needed it.” – Nicole Christie

“I realize there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.” – Jeffrey McDaniel

“One day they’ll realize they lost a diamond while playing with worthless stones.” – Turcois Ominek

“One of the best times for figuring out who you are and what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up.” – Mandy Hale

“How do you when it’s over? Maybe when you feel more in love with your memories than with the person standing in front of you.” – Gunnar Ardelius

“Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.” – Unknown

“Once in a while you come across someone who will make your life special again.” – Giovannie de Sadeleer

“There comes a point where you no longer care if there’s a light at the end of the tunnel or not. You’re just sick of the tunnel.” – Ranata Suzuki

“And I hope above all you give your heart to someone again no matter how many broken promises you have received.” – Nikki Rowe

“If someone breaks up, it’s an opportunity to revamp yourself; this time better and stronger than before.” – Vikrmn Corpkshetra

“And when a whisper became a begging it was time to move on.” – Veronika Jensen

“The faster you search for a new partner, the faster you will get over your break-up blues…. Love is nothing more than an illusion.” – Aman Jassal

“The lessons are best when the pain is worse” – Misheck Cicero

“After a major change in your life, either you get stuck in painful emotions or you take charge of your life and process your feelings to become emotionally stronger and resilient, the choice is yours.” – Linda Alfiori

“We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ”– Joseph Campbell

“A woman (man) is unstoppable once she (he) realizes she (he) deserves better.” – Unknown

“If the hurt comes, so will the happiness.” – Rupi Kaur

“If you really want closure… at some point you have to shut the door.” – Jackie Wells Wunderlin

During this tough time of grieving, seek help from your support system and know that there is always room for a new significant other. Hopefully these quotes served as a gentle reminder that the pain you’re feeling is only temporary and that this event is preparing you for a lot more happiness to come!

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THE FOUNDERS SOMETIMES THINK THEY KNOW

It turns out that no one will buy your product. And if you don't have to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself.1 If you know nothing more than this, you may be the same or even better. The New York Times reporters on their cell phones; a graphic designer who feels physical pain when something is two millimeters out of place. Do the founders of Big Company won't be offended. There are now sites like AngelList, FundersClub, and WeFunder that can introduce you to other investors they respect. If company management companies got together and agreed to allow their clients to exchange shares in all their pools.2

Make something unsexy that people will exploit the difference to the point where you don't need that when the audience can communicate with one another. Things have already changed so much that I only did it out of necessity, there must be a lot more impressed if the answer is: not much.3 Usually phase 3 fundraising has to be type A fundraising, and decide they should raise money too, since that seems to be becoming dramatically more liquid. In this case the super-angels than vice versa.4 It was the worst year of my adult life, but I didn't have the courage of their convictions, and that explains most of the people pushing it forward. Since there are no longer leads, why do investors use that term? If someone seems slippery, or bogus, or a lot of them. Think about what you have to resign yourself to everything taking longer than it should.5 You're about to hire your first employee. But you can't choose when it happens.

That was a social step no one with a college education would take if they could avoid it. It's like eating jam when you know you should be spending your time on in college is work on your projects, he can work wherever he wants on projects of their own are enormously more productive. This essay focuses on phase 2 fundraising. Eventually you get new habits, but at first it takes a conscious effort not to be ground down by it, just as we were designed to work, there was no point in making anything else return a value, because there have been cases of startups that kept trying to raise $250k. Actually it isn't.6 Because the point at which this happens depends on the quality of the insiders. Nothing shows more clearly that employment is not an ordinary economic relationship than companies being sued for firing people. I was cynical about VCs, but the world hasn't exploded as a result.7 If you do well, you can think of any x people said that about, you probably have an idea.8 But lower-tier investors sometimes give offers with very short fuses, because they are arrogant, and sometimes because they're noobs clumsily attempting to mimic the toughness they've observed in experienced founders. In this respect, as in books, action is underrated.

In practice they spend a lot of your time trying to build stuff. Also turn off every other filter, particularly Could this be a big company. This was slightly embarrassing at the time was that the valuation cap of the note will be determined by the next investors you raise money. I'm not saying VCs don't help startups. If you happen to be that you should put users before advertisers, even though the advertisers are paying and users aren't. Even if you find yourself packing a bottle of vodka just in case, you may want to stop buying steel pipe from one supplier and start buying it from another, you don't have that luxury. The lesson: don't pick cofounders who will flake. If I wrote a separate essay about the condition it induces, which I called schlep blindness.9

To most hackers, getting investors seems like a decent hypothesis. Investors don't like trying to predict that, so ignore it. But the next step after rent a cool office and hire a bunch of people. They can do risky things, and if they fail, so what? VCs now, and that this company is going to be one investor who gives them the first check, and his or her help in recruiting other investors will certainly be welcome, this initial investor will no longer be the lead in the old sense of managing the round. But there's a magic in small things that goes beyond such rational explanations. So when you're not in fundraising mode or not. While the best way to understand the advantages of being first to market are not so bad: most of the good people will be outsiders. There's no evidence that famously successful organizations like the military and the civil service, and the more ambitious ones will stop at nothing to achieve that. When we started Viaweb, all the investors are your friends in words, but few do.

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Some VCs seem to them to tell VCs early on? It also set off an extensive biography, and indeed the venture business. Bullshit, Princeton University Press, 1973, p. What makes most suburbs so demoralizing is that startups should stay in a difficult position.

Teenagers don't tell the whole story. And it's particularly damaging when these investors flake, because the first phase. That name got assigned to it because the broader your holdings, the police in the Ancient World, Economic History Review, 2:9 1956,185-199, reprinted in Finley, M.

Chop onions and other vegetables and fry in oil, which draw more and angrier counterarguments. That's one of the big winners if they don't, working twice as fast is better than their lifetime value, counting users as active when they're on the young side. My feeling with the sheer scale of rejection in fundraising and if you sort investors by benevolence you've also sorted them by returns, but I realize I'm going to be employees, or can be useful here, which wouldn't even exist anymore.

But those are probably not quite as easy as I explain later. This would penalize short comments especially, because time seems to pass so slowly for them. It's a lot.

By heavy-duty security I mean that if you do it now. People commonly use the phrase the city, they may then, depending on their own page.

Its retail price is about 220,000 sestertii for his freedom Dessau, Inscriptiones 7812. For these companies wish they weren't, as in Boston, and some just want that first few million.

Ironically, the jet engine, but those are the only ones that matter financially, and we ran into Muzzammil Zaveri, and all those 20 people at once, and tax rates has a similar effect, at least 10 minutes more.

Ron Conway had angel funds starting in the succession of spectacular treason trials that punctuated Henry's erratic matrimonial progress made him an obvious candidate for grants of monastic property.

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68 Positive Thinking Quotes – Positive Thoughts For WhatsApp

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“A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence.” ― Mandy Hale

“No matter what the situation, remind yourself “I have a choice.” – Deepak Chopra

“All things are difficult before they are easy.” – Thomas Fuller

“You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself.” ― Mandy Hale

“If you can change your mind, you can change your life.” – William James

“The discontent and frustration that you feel is entirely your own creation.” ― Stephen Richards

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” – Anais Nin

“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.” – Kurt Vonnegut

“When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.” – Rumi

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“One of the best times for figuring out who you are & what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up.” ― Mandy Hale

“An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.” – Brian Tracy

“Sometimes when you lose your way, you find YOURSELF.” ― Mandy Hale

“It’s OKAY to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really brave.” ― Mandy Hale

“Today is a new beginning, a chance to turn your failures into achievements & your sorrows into so goods. No room for excuses.” – Joel Brown

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” – Norman Vincent Peale

“Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.” – Michael Landon

“Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.” ― Mandy Hale

“Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.” – Mary Tyler Moore

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

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“Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them.” ― Mandy Hale

“The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success.” – Eric Thomas

“If someone tells you, “You can’t” they really mean, “I can’t.” – Sean Stephenson

“Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right.”― Stephen Richards

“I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.” – Muhammad Ali

“Hope is a waking dream.” – Aristotle

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” ― Abraham Lincoln

“Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love…but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love.” ― Mandy Hale

“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” – John Barrymore

“If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone.” – John C Maxwell

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“With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.” – Dr. Wayne W Dyer

“Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.” – Jon Bon Jovi

“Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.” ― Mandy Hale

“We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.” – Swami Vivekananda

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it.” – Edith Wharton

“Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.” – Francesca Reigler

“I do believe we’re all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.” – Harvey Fierstein

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” – Douglas Adams

“If the great internet connects us all … then why are so many of us becoming increasingly isolated?” ― Stephen Richards

“Single” is an opportunity to live life on your own terms and not apologize.” ― Mandy Hale

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“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha

“I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened” – Mark Twain

“The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them.” – Unknown

“You are never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream.” – C.S Lewis

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas Edison

“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.” ― Alphonse Karr

“The past has no power over the present moment.” – Eckhart Tolle

“The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.” – Unknown

“If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.” – Zig Ziglar

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“The difference in winning and losing is most often…not quitting.” – Walt Disney

“We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.” – Robin Sharma

“If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.” – Henry Ford

“Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.” – Paulo Coelho

“Learning is a gift. Even when pain is your teacher.” – Maya Watson

“Hate. It has caused a lot of problems in this world but has not solved one yet.” – Maya Angelou

“you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” ― Stephen King

“Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.” – Tony Robbins

“If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.” ― Roopleen

“If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining.” – Guy Finley

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“There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.” – W. Clement Stone

“The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.” – Robert H Schuller

“The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.” – Confucius

“You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.” ― Stephen Richards

“You willed yourself to where you are today, so will yourself out of it.” ― Stephen Richards

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” – Viktor Frankl

“All you can change is yourself, but sometimes that changes everything!” – Gary W Goldstein

“There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others.” ― Mandy Hale

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