How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! ― Jane Austen

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You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.

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Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. - Albert Camus

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Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am your sin. You took on you what was mine; yet set on me what was yours. You became what you were not, that I might become what I was not.

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The triumph can't be had without the struggle.

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Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus. ― Françoise Sagan

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He felt immense tenderness for her. He was sure that he would always love her, for my happiness and also my misfortune.

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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world. — Jack Layton

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Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

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Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.

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