You breathe all the time you're sleep, but you aren't living. I mean living -- doing the things you want to do . . . . That's what I call living, Aunt Polly. Just breathing isn't Iiving.
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Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out . . . People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.Eleanor H. Porter
What men and women need is encouragement. . . . Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits.
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Oh, yes, the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about -- not matter what twas, rejoined Pollyanna earnestly. And we began right then -- on the crutches.
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I can't see anythin, ter be glad about -- gettin, a pair of crutches when you wanted a doll . . . Goosey Why, just be glad because you don,t -- need em . . .
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