Be like a rose; no matter how many thorns you encounter in life, bloom. ― Matshona Dhliwayo

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In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. — Dante Alighieri

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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind. ― Bernard M. Baruch

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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

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Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed-men, and such as sleep o'nights; Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much; such men are dangerous.

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No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement.

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It doesnt matter how many people vote, only who counts them. ― Stalin

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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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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

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Churchill: "Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?" Socialite: "My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms, of course... " Churchill: "Would you sleep with me for five pounds?" Socialite: "Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!" Churchill: "Madam, we've already established that. Now we are haggling about the price

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