If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all. — Michelangelo

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Peter Brook's 'Midsummer Night's Dream,' I remember seeing. That was pretty early on. And suddenly, I realized how theatrical Shakespeare is, how alive, how wonderful it is when it's opened up by a great director and a great company. - Jeremy Irons

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The prisoner imagines freedom to be more wonderful than it is.

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We can’t heal the world today, but we can begin with a voice of compassion, a heart of love, an act of kindness. – Mary Davis

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It’s a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient. — Daniel Kahneman

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Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you. – Princess Diana

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When you engage your brain, it just keeps getting fatter and richer and wonderful. - Rita Moreno

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No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

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Then it was that books began to happen to me, and I began to believe in nothing but books and the wonderful world in books-- where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables as we did in Kansas. ― Langston Hughes

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That's the thing about running: your greatest runs are rarely measured by racing success. They are moments in time when running allows you to see how wonderful your life it.

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