The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being, Freedom from ambition,Creation.

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You just can't beat the person who never gives up. — Babe Ruth

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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds. -J. Cole

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Some of the things that beat the shit out of you . . . can beat the bullshit out of you too. ― Henry V. O'Neil

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Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime. – Laura Ingalls Wilder

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As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: "With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas," or, They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them.

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As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where – where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border.

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Christmas 2022 was a time where air travelers should have bought the optional travel insurance! ― Steven Magee

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Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us.

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Home is the nicest word there is. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

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