Oh, Issyk-Kul, my Issyk-Kul--my unfinished song! Why did I have to remember that day when I came here with Asel and stopped on the same rise, right above the water? Everything was the same. The blue-and-white waves ran up the yellow shore holding hands. The sun was setting behind the mountains, and at the far end of the lake the water was tinged with pink. The swans wheeled over the water with excited, exultant cries. They soared up and dropped down on outspread wings that seemed to hum. They whipped up the water and started wide, foaming circles. Everything was the same, only there was no Asel with me. Where are you, my slender poplar in a red kerchief, where are you now?

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When we are open to new possibilities, we find them. Be open and skeptical of everything. ― Todd Kashdan

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Last night we let the liquor talk, I can’t remember everything we said but we said it all – Morgan Wallen

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Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated. ― Karen Maezen Miller

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Having hope is everything. The solutions to our problems rarely come as fast as we want them to, and in the meantime, while we wait, it’s our hope and our faith that keep us going. ― LeBron James

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Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else. — Bette Davis

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I only know everything if you ask the right questions. ― Doc Coleman

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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth — look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment. ― Soren Kierkegaard

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Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. - Zig Ziglar

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