There have been days when I ...

There have been days when I sought respite from my life, only to find myself calling every hour to check on it.
There have been days when I sought respite from my life, only to find myself calling every hour to check on it.

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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What is a mom but the sunshine of our days and the north star of our nights.
Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.
One of the great logical puzzles is how a woman is always like her mother but never like her sister.
U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James.
The lesson of Good Friday is to never lose hope — or at least give it 48 hours.