it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings. ― Daisaku Ikeda

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It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.

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We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own and other's people's models, learn to be ourselves and allow our natural channel to open.

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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

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Everyone knew it was impossible, until a fool who didn't know came along and did it.

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I finally figured out that not every crisis can be managed. As much as we want to keep ourselves safe, we can't protect ourselves from everything. If we want to embrace life, we also have to embrace chaos. ― Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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Conquests will come and go but Delambre's work will endure.

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.- Charles Kettering

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After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?

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Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. — Marianne Williamson

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