"Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen."

-- Thomas Carlyle

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“Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.”
“When death occurs, death as you know it, the universe embraces you and takes you to its heart.”

Source : Rosemary Altea (2007). “A Matter of Life and Death: Remarkable True Stories of Hope and Healing”, Tarcher
“Very often people who admit the facts, who are willing to see that Mr. Rockefeller has employed force and fraud to secure his ends, justify him by declaring, 'It's business.' That is, 'it's business' has come to be a legitimate excuse for hard dealing, sly tricks, special privileges.”
“I never really had a chance to know the players individually... I thought when they were on the floor, they worked hard. But I never really got to know them.”
“A sincere acquaintance with ourselves teaches us humility; and from humility springs that benevolence which compassionates the transgressors we condemn, and prevents the punishments we inflict from themselves partaking of crime, in being rather the wreakings of revenge than the chastisements of virtue.”

Source : Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”
“Believe in God like the sun up in the sky, see science can tell us how but it can't tell us why. I seen a baby cry then seconds later she laughed, the beauty of life the pain never lasts.”
“When the storms of life strike, it's what happens in you that will determine what happens to you.”
“If you're lucky enough to be raised in a rich family, good. But learn how to respect that luck. It's not a given, you know? It's not like, 'Well, it's normal'. No, it's not normal. It's lucky.”

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