“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”
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“When you ask God for a gift,
Be thankful if he sends,
Not diamonds, pearls or riches,
but the love of real true friends.”
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Be thankful if he sends,
Not diamonds, pearls or riches,
but the love of real true friends.”
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“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.”
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“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
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“Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one.”
― The Darkest Evening of the Year
― The Darkest Evening of the Year
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