Books. Cats. Life is good.

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When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

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As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

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Early on in my life I comprehended that death is the most tragic event in our life. Events of early Monday July 14, 1958 [Coup in Iraq] had convinced me that hate is the most destructive force in our life. — Ala Bashir

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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

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To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing. - Elbert Hubbard

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Life is what we make it and how we make it – whether we realize it or not. - Napoleon Hill

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It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. _ Dale Carnegie

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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. There will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.

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I was astounded at the passion and fire of the melody itself. I could not describe it then, nor can I now. Was it just his voice or something more tangible emerging from his very soul that could arouse such emotion in another person, and bring one's innermost thoughts to life?

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