I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

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How can you and I really expect to glide naively through life, as if to say, 'Lord, give me experience, but not grief, not sorrow, not pain, not opposition, not betrayal, and certainly not to be forsaken. Keep from me, Lord, all those experiences which made Thee what Thou art! Then, let me come and dwell with Thee and fully share Thy joy!'

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In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.― Nicholas Sparks

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The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. – Oprah Winfrey

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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. — Henry David Thoreau

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If you're going through hell, keep going

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And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

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You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you. - Voltaire

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Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.

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