Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.

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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.

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Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne.

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To be is to do - Socrates To do is to be - Sartre Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra

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A lack of seriousness has led to all sorts of wonderful insights.

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As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.

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It's a terrible waste to be happy and not notice it.

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We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.

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Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first.

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The Summer had died peacefully in its sleep, and Autumn, as soft-spoken executrix, was locking life up safely until Spring came to claim it.

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