Although happiness is a state
of being, it usually still requires
some doing if it is to be
lasting in your life.


Domonique Bertolucci

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Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)"

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Embrace nothing:
If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha.
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If thee are not tender
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Be there where is Your Happiness.

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I like for you to be still
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I...
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Love Will Be
But Most of All,
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Your Voice
Your Reason To Be
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My Heart...
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try keeping your heart sane.
Once it loses sanity
the mind usually fol...
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Communication


Is a work of art

Some are normally born with it

A. SALEH
Would you like to know your future?

If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is th...
VERA NAZARIAN
See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
There is a fable in the forest
Whispered by the branches, as they blow.
A tale about the t...
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Tell me what it is that you are hiding behind your eyes.
Tell me of the pain, so I can make it ...
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A Prayer
Refuse to fall down
If you cannot refuse to fall down,
refuse to stay...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS
Usually you put a tee in the ground to let someone know
they've hit a ball into your group, ......
DAVID KRAMER
Justice is the only worship.
Love is the only priest.
Ignorance is the only slavery.
...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
the rent is a little higher here
but so far I've been able to
pay it
and that's a mi...
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The War Has Been Declared.
Your Ally Been Ensnared.
It Is Now Or It Is Never.
Break T...
SUZANNE COLLINS
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The anthem of the world.
For as there are billions
of differe...
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And there you are
on the shore,

fitful and thoughtful, trying
to attach them ...
MARY OLIVER
If I never meet you
In this life
Let me feel the lack
A glance from your eyes
T...
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I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
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... so this is for us.
This is for us who sing, write, dance, act, study, run and love
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