"Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive."

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“If wishes were wings, pigs would fly.”

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“The pike does not ask the frog’s permission before dining.”

“The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.”

“Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.”

“Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.”

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"A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships."

— Helen Keller

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