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“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.” -- Milton Berle

“All our dreams can come true...if we have the courage to pursue them.” -- Walt Disney

"Listen, are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?" -- Mary Oliver

"You are not your story." -- Ms. Peters

"Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it is about learning to dance in the rain." -- Anonymous

"Our lives are like a candle in the wind." -- Carl Sandburg

"The next time it begins to rain... lie down on your belly, nestle your chin into the grass, and get a frog's-eye view of how raindrops fall... The sight of hundreds of blades of grass bowing down and popping back up like piano keys strikes me as one of the merriest sights in the world." -- Malcolm Margolin

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within." -- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

"Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon." -- Doug Larson

"If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I would be at the bottom to catch them." -- Anonymous

“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.” -- Billy Wilder

"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." -- Dr. Seuss

"Missing someone gets easier everyday. Because, even though it is one day further from the last time you saw each other, it is one day closer to the next time you will." -- Anonymous

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." -- R. Buckminster Fuller

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when their right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust noone but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together." -- Marilyn Monroe

"Be who you are, and say what you feel because those who mind dont matter and those who matter dont mind." -- Dr. Seuss

"Everyone in life is gonna hurt you, you just have to figure out which people are worth the pain." -- Anonymous

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing." -- Agatha Christie

"Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise." -- Alice Walker

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." -- Annie Dillard

"If you try to let everything in your life run their course, eventually everything is going to collide." -- Hamza Zain

"The most difficult thing for a parent to realize is that their children aren't angels." -- Laurie Creery