The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely. ― Louisa May Alcott

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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

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You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go. — Dr. Seuss

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If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.

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What makes people tick? Life can be a trap of ennui, but imagery may be a redemptive escape from dullness. The iconic power and exuberance of images generate an inexorable addiction that needs to be gratified without respite. Here and now! ("Give me more images") ― Erik Pevernagie

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Religion says earn your life. Secular society says create your life. Jesus says, 'My life for your life.

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If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon. ― W.C. Fields

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We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

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Stars are born out of dark moments. ― Matshona Dhliwayo

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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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