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From every fight he’d been in or watched, he had learned lessons and had come to recognize that where you hit a man was far more important than how hard you hit him.
Can happiness be that easy? Finding little joys in the worst moments?
Laughter was like a hot shower for the soul after a long, cold day.
“My dear,” Mrs. Kantor said, “I have come to believe after eighty-one years on this earth that our job in life is to endure, to be kind, and to constantly put the past behind us and not dwell too much on the future. If you must look back, try to find the beauty and the benefit in every cruelty done to you. If you must think about the future, try to have no expectations about it. Trust in God to guide you through. You understand?”
He said praying was where you talk to God. And meditation was where you listen.”
That’s what tyranny was, Adeline decided, a sickness, a fever, a poison in the liver of mankind.
‘This is the green valley we are in today, and we should enjoy it.’”
“The bee is a miracle,” he heard a man say in German, but in an odd, thick accent. “No bee, no flowers, no fruit, no beauty, no life.”
Emil asked himself why some people were willing to uproot and chase freedom at all costs while others were content to stew in their misery.
