"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself." ― Mikhail Baryshnikov

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." ― Samuel Beckett

“It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.” ― Aldous Huxley

"If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.” ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.” — A.A. Milne

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.” ― Sylvia Plath

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