"The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain."

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Source : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1906). “Longfellow Day by Day”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“We may have much that worries us, and we may find many reasons to be concerned. Yet, as President Spencer W. Kimball observed, peace and the Savior's doctrine of forgiveness are inseparably connected: The essence of forgiveness is that it brings peace to the previously anxious, restless, frustrated, perhaps tormented soul.”
“You have to follow your instinct all the time. Otherwise you don't make it.”
“If we don't have historical consciousness we can't really understand problems in all their dimensions, and if we can't understand problems than we can't find solutions.”
“I have found that by looking at what is rewarded and punished, and why, universally - i.e., in nature as well as in humanity - I have been able to learn more about what is "good" and "bad" than by listening to most people's views about good and bad.”
“But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.”
“And people are intrigued if I really am as grumpy in real life. People feel a bit let down if I'm laughing or smiling.”

Source : "Question time: Jack Dee". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2009.
“I've been blessed with pretty strong stamina and healthy genes, so I'd call myself sensible. I've had regular mammograms ever since I found a lump in my breast when I was 30. Thankfully all was well.”

Source : "My body & soul". Interview with Catherine Rapley, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2009.
“It is clear that the nations of the world now can only rise and fall together. It is not a question of one nation winning at the expense of another. We must all help one another or all perish together.”

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