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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Sure it's a big job, but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can. ~John F. Kennedy
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All of the significant battles are waged within the self. ~Zen Proverb
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I am having a good time doing nothing. ~Phylicia Rashad
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. ~Thomas Fuller
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What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more? ~Chang-Rae Lee
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The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry. ~French Proverb
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It is not enough to run, one must start in time. ~French Proverb
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Every cloud has a silver lining. ~English Proverb
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The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~Bertrand Russell
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Good news always comes from far away. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe. ~Indian Proverb
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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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By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class. ~John Podhoretz
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Advice after injury is like medicine after death. ~Danish Proverb
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Pass the bridge that your kinsmen have passed. ~Azerbaijani 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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You can't prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. ~Chinese proverb
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The goal is to keep having fun. Not let that pressure get to me and still be Missy. ~Missy Franklin
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Sorrow is brief but joy is endless ~Friedrich Schiller
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I'm living the dream. ~David Petraeus
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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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Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be. ~Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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