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"It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays."
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"You can't put a price on fun, it's always priceless."

"Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone.Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music."

"The joy of small that makes life large."

"Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering the converse does. The brave who focus and all things good and all things beautiful to give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agent to bring the fullest night to all the world."

"You can't afford to leave your happiness to others. Create what you wish to experience."

"Make peace with your now moment. Live in this very moment and be happy with what you have. Joy enters when we stop complaining about the troubles we have and offering thanks for all the troubles we don't have. And be aware, you have to fight through some bad days to earn the best days of your life."
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"Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down."

"In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live."

"Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me."

"Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners."

"Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me."
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