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"The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow."
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"People lose their enthusiasm and disengage for a variety of reasons. It can be due to boredom, disinterest, rejection, apathy, overwhelm, or exhaustion. Once a person begins to disengage, the tendency can bleed over into other areas of their life and disconnect them from what would actually bring them joy."

"If you want to be happy, love. If you want to be happier, love some more."
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"Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter."

"Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free."

"I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt."

"A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself."

"In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?"
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