"Patience and time do more than strength or passion."
"To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living."
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Source: From Grandmother with Love. Book by Becky Kelly and Patrick Regan, 2005.
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