Beware the barrenness of a busy life. — Socrates

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I have talked about choosing rather than acting from compulsion. When you feel that you have to live according to someone else's direction or live so that you never disappoint or hurt anybody, then your life is a continual assessment of whether or not you please other people.

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When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.

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Hell is other people - Jean-Paul Sartre

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius

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As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. ― Henry David Thoreau

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Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

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Broken hearts healed. Maybe the cracks were always there, like thin scars, but they healed. People lived and worked, laughed and ate, walked and talked with those cracks For many, even the scars healed and they loved again.

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I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.

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How difficult life may seem, while there’s life, there is hope.

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