Choose to be optimistic, it feels better. ― Dalai Lama XIV

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Happiness is a nothingness without completeness. ― Hlovate

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Even death, faced with the option of death or life, she would choose life. ― José Saramago

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I want to be careful not to throw all this away. This is happiness. I think this is what happiness is. I haven't got it yet, but I can sense it out there. I feel I'm close to it. Some days, I'm so close I can almost smell it. ― Sebastian Faulks

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The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense. - Ida B. Wells

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I never did cheesecake; I just used my hair.

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Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.- Joy Page

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I didn’t choose the thug life, the thug life chose me. — Tupac Shakur

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If we do not choose, we will end up with none. — Dr. Seuss

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Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story. ― Lionel Shriver

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