The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God! _ Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. ― George Bernard Shaw

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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them.

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The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.

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Here are some questions I am constantly noodling over: Do you splurge or do you hoard? Do you live every day as if it's your last, or do you save your money on the chance you'll live twenty more years? Is life too short, or is it going to be too long? Do you work as hard as you can, or do you slow down to smell the roses? And where do carbohydrates fit into all this? Are we really all going to spend our last years avoiding bread, especially now that bread in American is so unbelievable delicious? And what about chocolate?

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A people free to choose will always choose peace. – Ronald Reagan

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Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. - Og Mandino

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I like to live with intensity. - Luca Toni

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The road is long, we carry on, try to have fun in the meantime.

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