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"Don't deny your emotions and force yourself to smile when you feel like crying. Cry, but learn to smile through your tears."
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"All overt and covert emotions would shrivel without the beam of contrast and comparison to supply context and implication. We need the value of counterpoise to recognize and distinguish between similar and dissimilar concepts. How do we identify the importance of hope if we never felt despair? How do we appreciate the value of society and companionship until we experience solitude and loneliness? What would any relationship be unless draped with the boughs of thoughts and feelings, without the ongoing interaction between conscientious action and unreserved devotion, without endless empathy fused with boundless love? In the ring of time, without the verve supplied by both the real and the imaginary, life would be bland, insipid, and lackluster."

"How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present? You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more."

"What will I do if I find myself with a heart?" "Lose it constantly, I imagine."

"You don't bless what you love...It's when you want to love and you can't manage it. You stretch out your hands and you say God forgive me that I can't love but bless this thing anyway...We have to bless what we hate...It would be better to love, but that's not always possible."

"Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate."

"He was so lonely that he laughed at himself."
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"When you decide to be the best you can be, don't be surprised if the circle of people you want to spend your time with becomes smaller."

"Although happiness is a state of being, it usually still requires some doing if it is to belasting in your life."

"See the world as being filled with positive potential. Focus your attention on your intention and make that potential a reality in your life."

"So many of life's eventualities are beyond your control. Work out what things you can influence and come to a peaceful acceptance of the rest."

"Very few changes in life are achieved without effort and a commitment to making that effort."

"Believe in yourself, believe in your dreams and believe in your right to achieve your dreams."
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