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 I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my own choices, the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change.  Fear, desire, hope still push us on toward the future. Every crowd has a silver lining. The really great visual experience today is to fly over a huge city and look down into the night. It's like a tremendous jubilant Christmas tree. You just feel life is worth living - when you come down you may have some doubts. The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police - it's gone. Friendship is honey, but don't eat it all. If we only knew the real value of a day. Passions are less mischievous than boredom, for passions tend to diminish and boredom increase. To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning. Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence. He had been kicked in the head by a mule when young, and believed everything he read in the Sunday papers. My parents told me that people will never know how long it takes you to do something. They will only know how well it is done. The world is quite right. It does not have to be consistent. The object of art is to give life a shape. Children have become so expensive that only the poor can afford them. Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have-so spend it wisely. Guard within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness; know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean - roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; Man marks the earth with ruin - his control Stops with the shore. Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living. 
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