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 He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.  If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody. A winner never quits and a quitter never wins. Prayer is the great engine to overthrow and rout my spiritual enemies, the great means to procure the graces of which I stand in hourly need. Progress results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done. What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable. There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation. Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. - Epicurus What can you say when your husband says: 'You can't expect me to remember your birthday when you never look any older." The more we reduce the size of our world, the more we shall be its master. People make their own luck. God speaks to all individuals through what happens to them moment by moment. The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making his life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see - it is, rather, a light by which we may see - and what we see is life. You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose. When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable, and to the citizen, most dismal swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place - a sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow of Nature. Be content with what thou hast received, and smooth thy frowning forehead. - Hafez We fear the thing we want the most. Snow endures but for a season, and joy comes with the morning. This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. Frankly, I like the fact that I no longer fit the young beauty type-people take me more seriously now. 
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