You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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pring buds burst to bloom, and the river carries their song of life. ― Jayita Bhattacharjee

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The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

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Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans. — John Lennon

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The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised. - Norman Vincent Peale

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To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing. - Elbert Hubbard

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. — Mark Twain

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I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that.

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Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

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If I don't like something that's going on in my life, I change it. And I don't sit and complain about it for a year.

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