You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what you do not need. ― Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened ― Dr. Suess

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Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that. ― Alan Moore, Watchmen

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The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day. ― C.S. Lewis

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I finally figured out that not every crisis can be managed. As much as we want to keep ourselves safe, we can't protect ourselves from everything. If we want to embrace life, we also have to embrace chaos. ― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Breathing Room

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I liked dark, urban stories like 'Peter Gunn,' which was a detective series on network TV when I was a little boy. I grew up in a farmtown in the Midwest where not much exciting happened. I liked the idea of lives lived at night and the shadowy characters who lived in that demi-monde. - Michael Emerson

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I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

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What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.

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People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence. ― Karl Lagerfeld

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Most people are nice when you finally see them. — Harper Lee

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