You mortgage yourself sometimes. You know what you want to do, then you balance it against paying the rent.

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Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive good things and good people will be drawn to you. - Mary Lou Retton

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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

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People who postpone happiness are like children who try chasing rainbows in an effort to find the pot of gold at the rainbows end...Your life will never be fulfilled until you are happy here and now.

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Happiness isn’t a goal… it’s a by-product of a life well lived. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts._ Richard Bach

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the point of losing something precious - be it happiness of material wealth - can be forgotten over time. but our missed opportunities never leave us, and every time they come back to haunt us, we ache. or perhaps what haunts us is that nagging thought that things might have turned out differently. because without the thought, we would put it down to fate and accept it.

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I was nineteen. You had your lips on my neck and whispers in my ear. You drove me crazy. But I mistook crazy for absolute happiness. ― Dominic Riccitello

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You can be whatever you want to be. Don't let discouragement take you down.

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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. ― George Bernard Shaw

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