the point of losing something precious - be it happiness of material wealth - can be forgotten over time. but our missed opportunities never leave us, and every time they come back to haunt us, we ache. or perhaps what haunts us is that nagging thought that things might have turned out differently. because without the thought, we would put it down to fate and accept it.

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Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,Whispering 'it will be happier'...― Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Your true purpose is to become your own unique self, and to do so with happiness and freedom from fear. ― Bryant McGill

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You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. ― Robert Frost

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Sign my life away to be the life of the party. – Morgan Wallen

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I was astounded at the passion and fire of the melody itself. I could not describe it then, nor can I now. Was it just his voice or something more tangible emerging from his very soul that could arouse such emotion in another person, and bring one’s innermost thoughts to life?

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Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated. ― Karen Maezen Miller

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. ― Simone de Beauvoir

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But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.

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