Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

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"I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love."

- William Blake

Love

"Love to faults is always blind, / Always is to joys inclined, / Lawless, winged, and unconfined, / And breaks all chains from every mind."

- William Blake

Love

"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."

- William Blake

Balance

"Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too."

- William Blake

Compassion

"The busy bee has no time for sorrow"

- William Blake

Happiness

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"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

Adversity

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

Adversity

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Adversity

"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

Adversity

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

Adversity