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The woods are never solitary--they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

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Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

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Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause is healed. Suffering is pain that we hold on to. It comes from the mind’s mysterious instinct to believe that pain is good, or that it cannot be escaped, or that the person deserves it. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

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Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven’t found meaning in their lives, so they’re running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running. Once you start running, it’s hard to slow yourself down. ↗

— Mitch Albom

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I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we´re still alive. ↗

— Stephen King

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. ↗

— Robertson Davies

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The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized. ↗

— Rachel Carson

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A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it. ↗

— Julie Andrews

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One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb. ↗

— Jan Karon

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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever ↗

— Germaine Greer

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