What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?

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There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires. — Nelson Mandela

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Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive good things and good people will be drawn to you. - Mary Lou Retton

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Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it. - Albert Schweitzer

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Keep your face always toward the sunshine and the shadow will fall behind you. — Walt Whitman

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This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.

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I suppose everybody has a mental picture of the days of the week, some seeing them as a circle, some as an endless line, and others again, for all I know, as triangles and cubes. Mine is a wavy line proceeding to infinity, dipping to Wednesday which is the colour of old silver dark with polishing and rising again to a pale gold Sunday. This day has a feeling in my picture of warmth and light breezes and sunshine and afternoons that stretch to infinity and mornings full of far-off bells. _ Angela Thirkell

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The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down. - Stephen Richards

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Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine. ― Criss Jami

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Hope is not pretending that troubles don't exist. It is the trust that they will not last forever, that hurts will be healed and difficulties overcome. It is faith that a source of strength and renewal lies within to lead us through the dark into the sunshine. — Liz Chase

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