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Life is far too short to dwell in the failings of yesteryear. My philosophy is to love those who love you, forget those who you can live without, and believe that life is a journey pitted with obstacles which, especially through failure, make us stronger and more appreciative of what we have accomplished. Although tomorrow may look bleak, it is a new day with new opportunity to make a greater change for the future. The greatest flaw we can ever make is believing progress starts with the first step. It starts when we decide to make a difference, however small it may be. We need to look to the future, never forgetting our past, and live for today, whilst still respecting what tomorrow might bring.
- Andrew Crichton
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There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Jung
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I’ve developed a new philosophy – I only dread one day at a time.
- Charles Schultz
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You can choose to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get. No one is really responsible to make someone else happy, no matter what most people have been taught and accept as true
- Sidney Madwed
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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
- John Stuart Mill
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The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy.
- Jim Rohn
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Philosophy will clip an angel’s wings, conquer all mysteries by rule and line, empty the haunted air, the gnome mine and unweave a rainbow.
- Keats
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
- Bertrand Russel
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Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
- Helen Keller
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Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy.
- Cynthia Nelms
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The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
- Tacitus