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Quotes
A man is master of his destiny.
Happiness is a strange thing; it is never in our hands for long.
Life is such a puzzle. It's like a jigsaw puzzle, and you miss one piece and the whole picture is ruined.
Hope is essential to life and to growth and to love.
There's no point in killing yourself over love. It'll come to you when it's ready.
The world is full of things that don't go our way. The mark of a successful man is one that can lay a good foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
One must learn to rely on oneself. It's the only thing that will always remain with you.
The essence of life is not in the great victories and grand failures, but in the simple joys.
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.