Several short thoughts:

* "For the concert of life, no one receives a program."

~ A Dutch proverb

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* "Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning."

~ from Psalms

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* "May the Lord grant me a sword and no need to use it."

~ Czech Proverb

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"If you live to be a hundred, I wan to live to be a hundred minus one day,

so I never have to live without you."

~ Winnie the Pooh

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"A sunrise is God's way of telling the world to lighten up!"

~ Roadside church sign

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