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 There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land again after a cheerful, careless voyage.  Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. Nature has always had more force than education. - Voltaire I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed. I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that... absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not one jot. The possibility is always there. Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable. We think in generalities, but we live in detail. The real offence, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his - attached to his own like a small garden plot to a deer park. Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Old friends are the great blessing of one's later years. ... They have a memory of the same events and have the same mode of thinking. I'm a one-drink woman, two at the most, three I'm under the table, four I'm under the host. Everything changes but change. Suffering has always been with us, does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength. - Bible It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word "travel" is derived from "travail," denoting the pains of childbirth. We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well. Thank God for sleep! And when you cannot sleep, still thank Him that you live to lie awake. Parents are friends that life gives us; friends are parents that the heart chooses. I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly. I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it. 
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