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

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Choose to be optimistic, it feels better. — Dalai Lama.

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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. — Oscar Wilde

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Love wins’ isn’t some fairytale saying; it’s instructions for life. — Arlene Dickinson, businesswoman and investor

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Give Happiness, Patience, kindness, and Care, and the PAIN goes away. Then only LOVE remains... ― Tsem Tulku Rinpoche

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A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart

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Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

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I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness. - George Fox

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I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. - Marilyn Monroe

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