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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

When the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit laughs for what it has found.
Sufi Teaching

Things fall apart so things can fall together.
American Folk Saying

If you were born without wings do nothing to prevent their growing.
Coco Chanel

The secret of life is balance, and the absence of balance is life's destruction.
Inayat Khan

It is not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
Lena Horne

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
William Cowper

Men are wise in porportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.
George Bernard Shaw

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
Henry Ward Beecher

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.
Helen Keller

Light and Love
The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.

The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.
Francis W. Bourdillan


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