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 There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.  A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. The grass must bend when the wind blows across it. We do not write as we want but as we can. Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are. Pennsylvania, the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts, and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland. That fear of missing out on things makes you miss out on everything. Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage, Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage. In her first passion woman loves her lover; In all the others, all she loves is love. Think that day lost whose (low) descending sun Views from thy hand no noble action done. Living upon a basis of unsatisfied demands, we were in a state of continual disturbance and frustration. Therefore, no peace was to be had unless we could find a means of reducing these demands. Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas. He hears it from the very moment that you are seized with helplessness, and He becomes actively engaged at once in hearing and answering the prayer of your helplessness. Do not pray for easy lives, pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers, pray for powers equal to your tasks. If you don't concentrate, you'll end up on your rear. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse as his portion. Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are endangered. Old birds are hard to pluck. Eventually I lost interest in trying to control my life, to make things happen in a way that I thought I wanted them to be. I began to practice surrendering to the universe and finding out what "it" wanted me to do. Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. 
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