The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. _ Marcus Aurelius

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We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.

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Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. — Sivananda

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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

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At eighteen the heart shoots like a pebble from a slingshot and the head doesn't sit on the shoulder.

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Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen. ― Henry Miller

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The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us.

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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.

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And the most beautiful words ever spoken, I have not yet said to you.

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We can’t heal the world today, but we can begin with a voice of compassion, a heart of love, an act of kindness. – Mary Davis

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