Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route. ― Tom Robbins

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Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind. ― Luther Burbank

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There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future. ― Eleanor Brown

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The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters.— Steve Jobs

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Nothing makes a person happier than having a happy heart. ― Roy T. Bennett

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Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects. ― Roger Zelazny

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The years lay spread out before her, spacious untouched canvases on which she was presently going to paint the picture of her life. It was to be a very beautiful picture, she said to herself with an extraordinary feeling of proud confidence; not beautiful because of any gifts or skill of hers, for never was a woman more giftless, but because of all the untiring little touches, the ceaseless care for detail, the patient painting out of mistakes; and every touch and every detail was going to be aglow with the bright colours of happiness. ― Elizabeth von Arnim

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Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,Whispering 'it will be happier'...― Alfred Lord Tennyson

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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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Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life. ― Hermann Hesse

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