In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

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Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

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Live your life to the fullest.

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The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.

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There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

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If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure. ― Philip Pullman

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Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. — Confucius

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

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We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

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The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.

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