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“Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
― Washington Irving

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.”
― Walter Scott, Marmion

“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
― Helen Keller

“I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.”
― Ralph W. Sockman

“We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.”
― André Berthiaume

“If it is a miracle any sort of evidence will answer. But if it is a fact, proof is necessary.”
― Mark Twain

“Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”
― Joseph Campbell