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"Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?"
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"One is forever throwing away substance for shadows."

"The evil components of our shadow are the part of us that we deplore, the part of us that we prefer not to admit. One must set themselves free from all inhibitions in order to initiate close encounters with their innermost monster. By standing toe-to-toe with the part of ourselves that we most detest, a person is in a position to slay their fiendish sense of self and, by doing so, undergo a soulful transformation."

"You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there."

"Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?"
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"Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance."

"A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods."

"An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it."

"Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature."

"When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough."

"Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness."
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