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"Peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work.  It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart."  ~Unknown

"The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove." ~Samuel Johnson 

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.” ~John Lubbock


"I have been in through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened." ~Mark Twain


"This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people." ~C.S. Lewis


"Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically." ~Dave Barry


"A library is the hospital for the mind." ~Unknown


"The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television." ~Dave Barry


"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." ~Ray Bradbury


"We need never be ashamed of our tears." ~Charles Dickens


"We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment." ~George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans Cross)


"Reader, I married him." ~Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)


"Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides." ~Rita Mae Brown