I figure, sometimes, bad things happen to us so we can achieve a higher purpose and attain greater happiness and fulfillment in life.

- Omoakhuana Anthoni

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I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

– Abraham Lincoln

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

– William Shakespeare

Grief is never something you get over. You don’t wake up one morning and say, ‘I’ve conquered that; now I’m moving on.’ It’s something that walks beside you every day. And if you can learn how to manage it and honour the person that you miss, you can take something that is incredibly sad and have some form of positivity.

– Terri Irwin

I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.

– Jeff Kinney

True love stories never have endings.

– Richard Bach

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

– Sophocles

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.

– Lauren Bacall

I saw a stationery store move.

– Jay London

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

– George Bernard Shaw

To be able to look back upon one’s past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

– John Dalberg-Acton

The best proof of love is trust.

– Joyce Brothers

The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else’s voice.

– Amit Kalantri

I would die for you. But I won’t live for you.

– Stephen Chbosky

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life.

– Joseph Conrad

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

– Taylor Swift

Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?

– Tracey Ullman

Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

– Barack Obama

I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.

– Albert Einstein

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

– Joel Osteen

God writes a lot of comedy… the trouble is, he’s stuck with so many bad actors who don’t know how to play funny.

– Garrison Keillor

The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.

– Rebecca Harding Davis

Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.

– L. Lionel Kendrick

What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.

– Juliette Binoche

I want to live my life, not record it.

– Jackie Kennedy

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

– Thomas A. Edison