There is no place more delightful than one’s own fireside. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify! ― Henry David Thoreau

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I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all...

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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going – Beverly Sills

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You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible - Deepak Chopra

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Bare your struggles very close to your heart and have them be a part of you that you’re proud of instead of something that you’re ashamed of.

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It’s at the heart of everything we struggle with in life: longing to be valuable, to be accepted, to be prized, to be worth something to somebody, to have a life that matters, and God’s saying ‘You matter! I didn’t make anyone else like you. You’re not a reprint or a lithograph. You’re a one-of-a-kind, original creation of God.

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She knew she loved him when 'home' went from being a place to being a person.— E. Leventhal

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Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

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When children attend schools that place a greater value in discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prisons. — Angela Davis

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