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You know what's given me the greatest pleasure in my life? It's been our bungalow, the normalcy of it, the ordinariness of my waking, Almaz rattling in the kitchen, my work, my classes, my rounds with the senior students. Seeing you and Shiva at dinner, then going to sleep with my wife...I want my days to be that way. ↗

— Abraham Verghese

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Surely a man must be in a parlours state to excite pity, extremely weak to inspire sympathy, or very evil-looking to make a soul tremble in a den like this, where pain must hold its tongue, poverty remain cheerful, and despair retain its self respect. ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

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...I won't ever again allow doubt to come in and dissolve my ability to live life as fully as I can. ↗

— Ann Linnea

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Every new day is an opportunity given to you on a platter of gold.Chibuoka www.smashwords.com/books/view/161524 ↗

— Chibuoka Chukwudebelu Okoye

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Suddenly, over the slope, as if tethered to a cord of air drawing quickly upward, came a Northern Harrier, motionless but for its rising. So still was the bird - wings, tail, head - it might have been a museum specimen. Then, as if atop the wind, it slid down the ridge, tilted a few times, veered, tacked up the hill, its wings hardly shifting. I though, if I could be that hawk for one hour I'd never again be just a man. ↗

— William Least Heat Moon

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you cannot get all your desires assuming the hidden secret standing somewhere scrutinizing your soul. ↗

— denmwen

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I chose and my world was shaken. So what. The choice might have been mistaken, but choosing was not. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim "Sunday in the Park with George"

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A setback is a lesson to push you forward. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

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Rags-to-riches story? I've heard that gospel before, no thanks. I find no greater inspiration than the riches-to-rags story of redemption, the story of God leaving His golden throne to pursue a wretch like me. ↗

— T. William Watts

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Clearly, he had his own strange way of judging things. I suspect he acquired it from the Gospels. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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