I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood.

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"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today."

- Will Rogers

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"Life is like a sewer … what you get out of it depends on what you put into it."

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"I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done."

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"Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know."

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