I’d thought that it was life itself that had ground me down – that my sadness stemmed from spiritual malaise. After spending two hours with a book, and finding it more pleasurable than two years of real life, I’d remember again that life had no meaning, and sink back into despair.

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I was one of those kids that was always picked on but, one thing I gotta say it that no matter how bad your life gets, there's always a bright light out there and you gotta find it. — Nonito Donaire

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Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

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For some, life may be a playground to undermine the brainwaves of others or simply a vainglorious game with an armory of theatrics, illustrating only bleak self-deception, haughty narcissism and dim deficiency in empathy. ("Another empty room") ― Erik Pevernagie

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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

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When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.

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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. — William James

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There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.

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I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

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