“Endure what you can, enjoy what you will.”
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“It is an act of courage to feel the deepest of feelings.... It is an act of endurance to carry the thickest of emotions and yet to remain expansive in joy....”
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“Birthday is just another day. It's loved ones who make it special.”
― You By You
― You By You
“This is the first birthday I've had without the person who's responsible for bringing me into the world all those decades ago. My mother... Because it was her desire to be the first to wish me a happy birthday, I always got a 5:30am phone call from her. I'm an early riser, but not that early. Yet even when my birthday fell on a Saturday, or Sunday, I loved getting that call. There are so many things you miss about a loving mother, especially on the first birthday you have without her.”
― Chronicles of a Radical Hag
― Chronicles of a Radical Hag
“However good-hearted one is, you understand, one eventually stops seeing people who depress you, so in the end Old Dantes was all alone.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
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