The more death, the more birth. People are entering, others are exiting. The cry of a baby, the mourning of others. When others cry, the other are laughing and making merry. The world is mingled with sadness, joy, happiness, anger, wealth, poverty, etc. ― Michael Bassey Johnson

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Keep your face always toward the sunshine and the shadow will fall behind you. – Walt Whitman

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I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true. ― Audrey Hepburn

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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

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So much about living life, to me, is about humility and gratitude. And I've tried very hard to have those qualities and be that person and I'm just so disappointed in myself that I allowed it to slip.

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Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. _ Francesca Reigler

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My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. ― Michael J. Fox

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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

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I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.

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The correct prayer is therefore never a prayer of supplication, but a prayer of gratitude. When you thank God in advance for that which you choose to experience in your reality, you in effect, acknowledge that it is there...in effect. Thankfulness is thus the most powerful statement to God - an affirmation that even before you ask, I have answered. Therefore never supplicate... Appreciate.

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