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 Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.  Men spend their lives in anticipation, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other-it is our own.... We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age. Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not. After that the idea that prayer is recommended to us as a sort of infallible gimmick may be dismissed. I wonder what memories of yours will persist as you go on in life. My hunch is that the most important will have to do with feelings of loving and being loved - whoever's been close to you. As you continue to grow, you'll find many ways of expressing your love and you'll discover more and more ways in which others express their love for you. The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it. In war, as in life, it is often necessary, when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might. Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. There's such a thin line between winning and losing. A continued atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own. This is life! It can harden and it can exalt! You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes. I pay the School Master, but 'tis the school boys that educate my son. There is nothing so bitter, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it. - Seneca This free-will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it. Treasure the memories of past misfortunes; they constitute our bank of fortitude. Nations, like individuals, have to limit their objectives or take the consequences. Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone. Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. 
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