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“Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.” ― Voltaire

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“Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final” ― Rainer Maria Rilke

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“Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.” ― Eckhart Tolle

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He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate. Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, February 11, 1840

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“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.” ― Jane Austen, Persuasion

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Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. - Mahatma Gandhi

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'...one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing...'

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I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. Nelson Mandela

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“I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.” ― Herman Melville (Moby Dick)

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“Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.” ― Jane Austen,

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“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.” - Denis Waitley

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How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you - you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences - like rags and shreds of your very life. ~Katherine Mansfield

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“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.” ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. ~John Betjeman, Summoned by Bells

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