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 I thank You God for this most amazing day; for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes.  Most ball games are lost, not won. When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something. A decision is an action you must take when you have information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself. Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one . . . and got hit by a bus. To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness. What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another. The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile. I think of my strawberry souffle. I did that at least twenty-eight times before I finally conquered it. Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength. Prayer is a condition of mind, an attitude of heart, which God recognizes as prayer whether it manifests itself in quiet thinking, in sighing or in audible words. In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both. Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat. Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves. A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. What should they know of England, who only England know? Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. Happiness grows at our firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. 
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