If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. — Albert Einstein

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Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

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May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

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If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit. ― Thomas Merton

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Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life. - Hunter S. Thompson

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Life is either a great adventure or nothing. ― Helen Keller

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Books. Cats. Life is good.

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If you feel that your life doesn’t matter it’s likely that you decided that it didn’t matter, and then you chose to act on a poor decision. ― Craig D. Lounsbrough

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We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.

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