Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. _ George A. Sheehan

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If you don’t have any shadows you’re not in the light.— Lady Gag

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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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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.

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A journey to Thousand miles begins with one step - John F. Kennedy

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We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

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I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse. — Florence Nightingale

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Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.

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Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. — Arthur Schopenhauer

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