Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions. – Dalai Lama

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Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told. ― Dean Koontz

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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.

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Creativity is intelligence having fun.

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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

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How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

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Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

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God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit. -Johnny Cash

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Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds. — Louisa May Alcott

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