Nothing can take your joy; you have to give it away. You're in complete control of your happiness. _ Joel Osteen

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When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over. ― Audrey Hepburn

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Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. — Charles Dickens

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There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. — Marcus Aurelius

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The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.

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Philadelphia caught my attention in 1995 when a group of homeless families were living in an abandoned cathedral. Even from the beginning they connected theology with what they were doing. They put a banner on the front of the cathedral that said, "How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday." — Shane Claiborne

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Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind. _ Shania Twain

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I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome.

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