So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood. ~Hiromu Arakawa
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But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime. ~Nancy Farmer
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All human joys are swift of wing. For heaven doth so allot it. That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it ~Eugene Field
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Good sayings are like pearls strung together. ~Chinese Proverb
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. ~Thomas Fuller
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A lot of people are simply interested in exploring their own spirituality, their own values, who they are, whether they're happy where they are. ~James Redfield
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Greatness alone is not enough, or the cow would outrun the hare. ~Proverb
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Feelings are determined by how one chooses to respond to various situations and events. ~Ralph Marston
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. ~Lord Byron
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Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that its hard to tell them apart. ~Carol Plum-Ucci
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Abstinence and fasting cure many a complaint. ~Danish Proverb
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If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself. ~Candance Bushnell
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A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will, over and over. ~Haruki Murakami
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I had somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed. ~Alan Bennett
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I am having a good time doing nothing. ~Phylicia Rashad
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Sorrow is brief but joy is endless ~Friedrich Schiller
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Hope springs eternal. ~American Proverb
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The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. ~Georges Bidault
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A secret is like a dove, when it leaves the hand, it takes wings. ~Saudi Proverb
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Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it. ~Confucius
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work. ~Bill Gates
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The road to a friend's house is never long. ~Danish Proverb
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No road is long with good company. ~Turkish Proverb
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