If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is.

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I don't fear death because I believe it is a transition. Our souls can't be destroyed. I know we are going to live in another life.

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You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.

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Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.

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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

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Men's minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.

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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. — Henry James

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Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.

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In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

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