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Never Give Up

As a teenager, many adults think, Oh she is young, she can do whatever she wants! Although that is true, it's also not true. As a senior in high school I find myself thinking about the future more often than I would like to admit. While many picture their senior year of high school partying, graduating, and spending time with friends, I think about academics, SAT and ACT testing, and the most stressful thing of all, college applications. Thinking about the sudden push to succeed from my parents and elder peers, I created a jar of inspirational quotes. I pick a few quotes from the jar daily and read them, becoming inspired and redeeming myself to continue my hard work towards success. Because of how much such a simple task has helped me, I wanted to share some inspirational quotes with you all with the hopes of inspiring you guys also.

*Some of these are song lyrics, or quotes from novels/movies

1. "Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you."

2. "Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose."

3. "You deserve to be with somebody who makes you happy."

4. "Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will."

5. "Love, it never dies, it never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang onto it. Love can make you immortal."

6. "Correction does much, but encouragement does more."

7. "The pieces of us both, under every city light, and they're shining as we fade into the night."

8. "Every day brings new choices."

9. "It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts."

10. "There's a reason that you are here."

11. "It's better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."

12. "I'll stay up late, listen to the rain pour, louder than anything, drowning out anything that's troubling me. Push on, always keep dreaming."

13. "Maybe it's not about the happy ending, maybe it's about the story."

14. "Beauty isn't about having a pretty face. It's about having a pretty mind, pretty heart and pretty soul."

15. "You've got to be who you are, and not be scared... Be strong."


"See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination."


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