No matter how tired you are, no matter how physically exhausting this work may be, it's beautiful to bring a smile into someone's life, to care for someone in need. What greater joy can there be?

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Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.

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I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.

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The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

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When anyone abuses you verbally, do not react. Because the very words that they are using against you are the very words that they are defining themselves as! ― Avijeet Das

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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.

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He spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it ― Nouwen Henri J. M.

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To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they're blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too.

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Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in. ― Lynsay Sands

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