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“The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change. ”
― Buddha

“What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew

“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

“She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

“Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Sometimes, the things They say, the laws They make, the way the world spins doesn't make any sense at all...

Which is exactly why you have to ask "Why?" and keep on asking until you get the TRUTH...”
― Joe Kelly, Douglas Fredericks and the House of They

“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart”
― Eleanor Roosevelt