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Survival is triumph enough. But one always returns to one's first loves. The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today. If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it. The secret of patience ... to do something else in the meantime. The trouble ain't that people are ignorant: it's that they know so much that ain't so. The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals. A door that seems to stand open must be a man's size, or it is not the door that Providence means for him. My wife converted me to religion. I never believed in hell until I married her. You want to make God laugh? Tell him your future plans. A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run. We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest, and our attention to something besides ourselves. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Champions know there are no shortcuts to the top. They climb the mountain one step at a time. They have no use for helicopters! He who excuses himself accuses himself. (Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.) I look just like the girl next door ... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park. Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.
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