Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny. – C.S. Lewis

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To be happy, make other people happy.

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Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. — Margaret Lee Runbeck

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The heart may freeze, or it can burn. The pain will ease and I can learn. There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as, my last. ― Jonathan Larson

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There is only one way to happiness: To be content with what you possess. ― Mouloud Benzadi

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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. _ Henry Ward Beecher

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I wasn’t thinking about our deal either when I got selected for the Worlds team. Being chosen to compete had been a jaw-dropping moment for me. But now I was riding a wave of excitement and fear. I’d be one of five girls carrying the banner for my country. Could I handle the pressure? I knew this was my test. I’d have to find a way to manage everyone’s expectations in order to keep them from making me feel overwhelmed. I needed to learn how to carry those expectations lightly—like a turtle carries its shell. ― Simone Biles

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Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. — Steve Kloves, screenwriter

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Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow. —Mahatma Gandhi

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Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

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