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#1

“Withstanding the cold develops vigor for the relaxing days of spring and summer. Besides, in this matter as in many others, it is evident that nature abhors a quitter.”
― Arthur C. Crandall, New England Joke Lore: The Tonic of Yankee Humor

tags: cold, new-england, winter

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#2

“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
― Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet

tags: irony, life, loneliness

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#3

“Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.”
― Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: a True Story

tags: action, belief, faith

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#4

“When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.”
― Edward Teller

tags: faith, light

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#5

“Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you've done will have mattered as much.”
― Lisa Wingate

tags: children, faith, family, parenting

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#6

“And still, after all this time,
The sun never says to the earth,
"You owe Me."

Look what happens with
A love like that,
It lights the Whole Sky.”
― Hafiz

tags: faith, inspiration

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#7

“Go where your best prayers take you.”
― Frederick Buechner

tags: faith, prayer

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#8

“With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides,
flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one
end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist
attacks, "Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of
the Pledge of Allegiance?”
― Jay Leno

tags: faith

166 likes

#9

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
― Marcel Proust

tags: gratitude, happiness

5518 likes

#10

“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

tags: birthday, happiness, laughter, shakespeare

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#11

“I only know I was born on March 5th because someone told me. I don’t remember myself. So it’s fact based on secondhand information and trust.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

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#12

“I don’t like to celebrate my birthday, because I don’t like taking credit for others’ work—in this case, my mom and dad. Or possibly my mom and the mailman. ”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title

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#13

“It’s my birthday, Horus insisted. Wish me happy birthday!
“Happy birthday!” I yelled. “Now shut up!”
― Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid

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#15

“A person's birthday should be a special day, a wonderful day, a day of pure celebration for the luck of being born!”
― Elise Broach, Masterpiece

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#16

“If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her 18th birthday, you can get out of bed.”
― E. Jean Carroll

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#17

“Birthdays are ghost bounty hunters that track you down to ask, "Que pasa, baby?”
― Jim Harrison

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#18

“If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed.”
― E. Jean Carroll

tags: humor

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#19

“It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.”
― Sam Levenson

tags: self-sufficiency

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#20

“Kate's Daddy had bought her a red BMW for her birthday. I found it to be an absolute miracle of God that Kate hadn't pancaked it yet. She drove like a blind person going into diabetic shock.”
― Courtney Allison Moulton, Angelfire

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#21

“Odd, isn’t it? You know when your birthday is, but not your death day, even though you pass the date year after year, never suspecting that some day…”
― Mary Downing Hahn, The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall

tags: death

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#22

“Let all beings in all the worlds be happy. Include this universal prayer in your prayers every day. This is my birthday message to you.”
― Sri Satya Sai Baba

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#23

“…tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getting, and how little she seemed to have accomplished. Almost twenty-five and nothing to show for it.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

tags: birthdays, little-women, louisa-may-alcott

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#24

“Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are.”
― Lionel Shriver, The Post-Birthday World

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#26

“Then I reached down into myself and managed to say, 'you should celebrate, your birthday should be celebrated, because the world's a better place with you in it.' May you continue to pile on the years, but with more pleasure from now on.”
― Helen Simpson

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#27

“The day which we fear is out last is buth the birthday of eternity”
― Seneca

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#28

“Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning sun can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem, or saying a prayer.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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#30

“Today's my birthday On mans scale 53 is a life more than 1/2 over. On the infinite scale of an eternal being I am just a cell of life that has forever to go!”
― Stanley Victor Paskavich

tags: spirituality

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#31

“All her life she had wanted to squeeze the toothpaste really squeeze it,not just one little squirt...The paste coiled and swirled and mounded in the washbasin. Ramona decorated the mound with toothpaste roses as if it was a toothpaste birthday cake”
― beverly cleary, Ramona and Her Mother

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#32

“Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday.”
― James Patterson, The Angel Experiment

tags: first-lines, opening-lines, warning

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#33

“Go have a birthday. Before you blink and its all over.”
― Abby Slovin, Letters In Cardboard Boxes

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