Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. ― Robert Frost

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Life shrinks or expands in proportion with one’s courage. — Anaïs Nin

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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are apt to be just the opposite, and that people who make dates are the same kind who need lines on their writing paper, or who always squeeze up from the bottom on a tube of toothpaste.

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The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.

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So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow. ― Rainbow Rowell,

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Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in. ― Lynsay Sands

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them—that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward however they like. — Lao Tzu.

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If a train doesn't stop at your station, then it's not your train.

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You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing. – Kate Morton

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