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"Every once in a while God allows you to stub your toe as a kind reminder to be grateful for the miraculous body attached to it."

"Anything great will only be appreciated if I am given the opportunity to feel the absence of it, or experience the reversal of it. It is only then that I can even begin to understand its majesty and cherish it in the manner I should have all along."

"If you want to know the value of a day, ask someone who could not find food to eat or water to drink for a whole day when he is hungry."

"Water on earth came from space. Everything which is there was once upon a time not there and everything which is there shall return again to wherever they come from! When you see a beautiful ocean, or beautiful anything, remember this and appreciate them well!"

"Many things that don't really mean so much of anything, are wonderful."

"Fantasizing about the future is not wrong until and unless you are not missing the beauty of the present!"

"When we don't see the value of a thing, we don't put the protective edge."

"Always celebrate people for who they are."

"Let us salute all the shadows of this world for the brilliant and enigmatical art they create day and night!"

"Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent."
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"It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice."

"Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed."

"Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders."

"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing."

"At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all."
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