There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year�s course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word "happy" could lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. �Carl Gustav Jung

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When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.                             �Kahlil Gibran

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Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.

�Lord Chesterfield

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The mind is but barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter.

�Joshua Reynolds

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When one door closes another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us.

�Alexander Graham Bell