How can you and I really expect to glide naively through life, as if to say, 'Lord, give me experience, but not grief, not sorrow, not pain, not opposition, not betrayal, and certainly not to be forsaken. Keep from me, Lord, all those experiences which made Thee what Thou art! Then, let me come and dwell with Thee and fully share Thy joy!'

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to love is to risk, not being loved in return. to hope is to risk pain. to try is to risk failure. but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in my life is to risk nothing.

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Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

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To be beautiful means to be yourself.You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don't try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.

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We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.― Neil deGrasse Tyson

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The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca. ― Anthony Bourdain

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One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful - Sigmund Freud

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There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

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Travel brings power and love back into your life. ― Rumi

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Happiness can be reached by choice and how you look at life. — Taylor Swift

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