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“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”

“Most people feel best about their work the week before their vacation, but it's not because of the vacation itself. What do you do the last week before you leave on a big trip? You clean up, close ...”

“When there is a crisis, let your heart pray, but let your hands work.”

“In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you peel off a layer and find deeper complications beneath. Natu...”

“We have got some very big problems confronting us and let us not make any mistake about it, human history in the future is fraught with tragedy ... It's only through people making a stand against t...”

“[Happiness is] a ghost, its a shadow. You cant really chase it. Its a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.”

“Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”

“It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.”

“I've always believed that happiness is just around the corner. The trick is fining the right corner.”

“Abuse manipulates and twists a childs natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked and she learns to ignore her feelings. She cant afford to feel the full range of...”

“Remember, nothing is ever created or destroyed. Therefore, unresolved emotional pain from childhood does not dissolve by itself. It sits waiting to be declared, and a child is the ultimate vehicle ...”

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”

“How to Find Your Joylah1. Try new things2. Be open to new friends3. Visit new places4. Listen to new ideas5. Remember each day is a new day6. And it's really no big deal if beads get mixed up every...”

“Mysteriously, almost unaccountably, my family had ended up in the trees, sort of like the Swiss Family Robinson.”

“If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.”

“..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.”

“The all-victorious Christ is like a great rock in a weary land, to whose shelter we may flee in every time of sorrow or trial, finding quiet refuge and peace in him.”

“Want for your brother, what you want for yourself.”

“Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble...”

“If you can't see a benefit of the challenges in the present, know that you're giving a present to your future." Bright Side Up: 100 Ways to Be Happier Right Now”