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“Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!

“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.”
― Rita Mae Brown

“A person's a person, no matter how small.”
― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Peace begins with a smile..”
― Mother Teresa

“For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone.
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We leave you a tradition with a future.
The tender loving care of human beings will never become obsolete.
People even more than things have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed and redeemed and redeemed.
Never throw out anybody.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Your “good old days” are still ahead of you, may you have many of them.”
― Sam Levenson, In One Era & Out the Other

“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
" Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”
― Alexandre Dumas

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I cannot live without books.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
― Anne Frank

“There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
― Emily Dickinson

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
― Emily Dickinson

“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
― Emily Dickinson

“I dwell in possibility…”
― Emily Dickinson

“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Forever is composed of nows.”
― Emily Dickinson

“I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell!
They ’d banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“A Word is Dead

A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.

I say it just
Begins to live
That day.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Beauty is not caused. It is.”
― Emily Dickinson