This is my real secret to being a joyful person: I make my life easy. I spend more time being grateful for what I have instead of focusing on what isn't working. I no longer believe that people have to do things my way and that I have to be perfect.

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Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

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By words the mind is winged

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Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.

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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven

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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream. ― Edgar Allan Poe

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By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

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Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.

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Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

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My songs are a reflection of how I think and how I feel at that moment. But I’m conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care of their words. - Shakira

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