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"Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism."

"Act as though everything will be perfectly fine - because it will. Life has you and it's not letting you go."

"When I look at the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes!"

"The storm is the optimist's friend, but the pessimist's nightmare."

"Life only gets better with every bright light."

"I see the good in the world because I choose to. I don't imagine that it's there, it's there waiting to be noticed."
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"Families are wonderful institution,' he said. 'I value mine more than I can possibly say. But each of us has an individual life to live, our own path to tread, our own destiny to forge. You can imagine, if you will, how my family wished to shelter and protect me and do my living for me so that I would never again know fear or pain or abandonment. Eventually I had to step clear of them-or I might have fallen into the temptation of allowing them to do just that."

"If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears."

"He had always felt that he lived on the edges of life, Constantine realized, watching everyone else living, sometimes helping them do it."

"Could a love of that magnitude die? If it was true love, could it ever die? Was there such a thing as true love?"

"We are made up of everything we have ever been, Percy. It is the joy and the pain of our individuality. There are no two of us the same."

"My life will be what I make it,' he told her. 'That is true for all of us all the time. We cannot know what the future will bring or how the events of the future will make us feel. We cannot even plan and feel any certainty that our most carefully contrived plans will be put into effect. Could I have predicted what happened to me in the Peninsula? Could you have predicted what happened to you in Cornwall? But those things happened to us nevertheless. And they changed our plans and our dreams so radically that we both might have been excused for giving up, for never planning or dreaming again, for never living again. That too is a choice we all have to make."

"If you are never frightened, sir, you would never find out what you was made of and what you was capable of doing. You would never become a better man than what you started out being. P'raps this is what you will discover - what you are made of and what you are capable of. And when you finally do remember who you are, p'raps you will find that you have become a better man than he ever was. P'raps he was a man why never ever grew any more once he reached manhood. P'raps he needed to do something drastic like losing his memory so that he could get his life unstuck."
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