You should consider yourself very lucky, if people in your life were good enough to provide you with guidance by giving you very short, very concise, sayings capable to govern your life. It is interesting how much you remember them in moments you need them. My favorites are (in no particular order, because I use them all):

1. “Every story has many stories within; it only depends where you start.”
2. “Be present”
3. "If you are going through hell, keep going”
   (Winston Churchill)
4. “If you want something you've never had, you will have to do something you've never done”
5. “Not failure, but low aim is the crime”
   (James Russell Lowell)
6. “It is better to try to understand people than to judge them”
7. “I’m more afraid of being nothing, than afraid of being hurt”
8. “Never, never, never give up”
   (Winston Churchill)
9. "It was more than a crime. It was a mistake”
   (Joseph Fouche)
10. “A great idea without funding is a hallucination”
    (Dr. Da Hsuan Feng)

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