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Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight. ↗

— Joan D. Chittister

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We never realize just how many other lives we can help when their paths cross our own. ↗

— Wil Zeus

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I testify that no one of us is less treasured or cherished of God than another. I testify that He loves each of us—insecurities, anxieties, self-image, and all. He doesn’t measure our talents or our looks; He doesn’t measure our professions or our possessions. He cheers on every runner, calling out that the race is against sin, not against each other. ↗

— Jeffrey R. Holland

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Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, we do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness; it should rather be an expression of breathless expectation. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

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I always say to people, ‘I am born today and I will die today’, which does not mean I will do harm to myself but which means I am living in every moment with utmost enthusiasm, love and I know the final destination. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

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It's nice to have things to look forward to. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

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Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves. ↗

— Diane Ackerman

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I learned from Hussain how to be wronged and be a winner, I learnt from Hussain how to attain victory while being oppressed. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

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I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not. ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

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