I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
Nothing is obnoxious as other people's luck.
- Topic: Humor, Luck
- Location: Gulf of Mexico
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
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