A couple of optimistic and life-assuring quotes:
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Nothing helps scenery like ham and eggs. Ham and eggs, and after these a pipe -- an old, rank, delicious pipe -- ham and eggs and scenery, a "down grade," a flying coach, a fragrant pipe and a contented heart -- these make happiness. It is what all the ages have struggled for.
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Roughing It, Mark Twain, 1872)
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Even the prospect of early annihilation should not keep us from making the most of our days on this unhappy planet. In the best of times, our days are numbered, anyway. And it would be a crime against Nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly that it puts off enjoying all those things for which we were presumably designed in the first place, and which the gravest statesman and the hoarsest politicians hope to make available to all men in the end: I mean the opportunity to do good work, to fall in love, to enjoy friends, to sit under trees, to read, to hit a ball and bounce the baby.
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Letters from America, Alistair Cooke, 1946-1951)