Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing? ― Jonathan Safran Foer

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You have choice. You can select joy over despair. You can select happiness over tears. You can select action over apathy. You can select growth over stagnation. You can select you. And you can select life. And it's time that people tell you you're not at the mercy of forces greater than yourself. You are, indeed, the greatest force for you.

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I have drunken deep of joy And I will taste no other wine tonight.― Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. — Marianne Williamson

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It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. — Abraham Lincoln

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Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.― Sean O'Casey

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Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time. ― Georgia O'Keeffe

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Be as delicate as a flower at all times. A flower can still bloom when surrounded by thorns, but you can’t smile if you’re in pain. ― Shree Shambav

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My day begins and ends with gratitude and joy.

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