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When you allow what someone says or does to upset you, you're allowing them to control you.

Joel Osteen

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Joel Osteen
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: March 5
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Houston
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Joel Scott Osteen
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You may have failed, but you are not a failure. That's what you did. That's not who you are.
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