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Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#life-happiness #inspirational

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. ↗

— Nora Roberts

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All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. ↗

— Agatha Christie

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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. ↗

— Robert Frost

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My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Tomorrow will be better.” “But what if it’s not?” I asked. “Then you say it again tomorrow. Because it might be. You never know, right? At some point, tomorrow will be better. ↗

— Morgan Matson

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The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#love #pain #inspirational

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#inspirational #living #mermaids #no-fear #sea