“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”
- Kahlil Gibran
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“We don’t accomplish anything in this world alone… and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one’s life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something.”
- Sandra Day O’Connor
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“We have no choice of what color we’re born or who our parents are or whether we’re rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we’re here.”
- Mildred Taylor
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“We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heartthrobs. One lives most who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.”
- David Bailey
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“We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.”
- Sir Winston Churchill




