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• I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that friends of mine were willing to take charge of me if I would rather be with them than in the asylum, I was only too glad to give my consent

  Nellie Bly

  Giving, Asylums, Lasts

  Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.87, Golgotha Press

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• I am glad The Worst Journey is coming out in Penguins: after all it is largely about penguins.

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard

  Journey, Penguins, Coming Out

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• Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can't help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don't like that. That's the famous joke: I don't like peas, and I'm glad I don't like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.

  Quentin Crisp

  Hate, Men, Thinking

  "The Celluloid Closet". Documentary, History, www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• I feel like somebody who just got out of prison after 40 years for something she didn't do, like I got pardoned by the governor. When dear friends deal with me with mixed emotions, it is a little like being told, 'Well, Jenny, we're glad you got sprung, really, but quite honestly we did kind of like you better when you were in jail.

  Jennifer Finney Boylan

  Years, Jail, Littles

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• Some people make you feel better about living. Some people you meet and you feel this little lift in your heart, this 'Ah', because there's something in them that's brighter or lighter, something beautiful or better than you, and here's the magic: instead of feeling worse, instead of feeling 'why am I so ordinary?', you feel just the opposite, you feel glad. In a weird way you feel better, because before this you hadn't realised or you'd forgotten human beings could shine so.

  Niall Williams

  Beautiful, Heart, Feel Better

  Niall Williams (2014). “History of the Rain: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014”, p.128, A&C Black

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• I had a lot of fun working with Maureen, she was so sweet and so nice to me. We'd have fun joking around. Maureen and I both love to sing and we love it when we got to do it. I was so glad to have had the opportunity to work with her. Maureen is a beautiful person, not just on the outside, but on the inside as well. I will always have lots of fond memories working with her.

  Geri Reischl

  Beautiful, Sweet, Fun

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• I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mind, Doe, Prejudice

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Happy Prince and Other Tales”, p.35, Xist Publishing

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• Honestly, happy. This happened for a reason. By having to answer that question in front of a national audience, God was testing my character and faith. I'm glad I stayed true to myself.

  Carrie Prejean

  Character, Answers, Reason

  "Exclusive: Carrie Prejean Says 'God Was Testing My Faith' With Gay Marriage Question". "FOX News" with Courtney Friel, www.foxnews.com. April 20, 2009.

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• I was a radical, a revolutionist. I am still a revolutionist…I am glad I was in the Stonewall riot. I remember when someone threw a Molotov cocktail, I thought, “My god, the revolution is here. The revolution is finally here!

  Sylvia Rivera

  Molotov Cocktail, Cocktails, Revolution

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• The best-adjusted people are the
  ‘psychologically patriotic,’ who are glad to be what they are.

  Isabel Briggs Myers

  Patriotic, People

  Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers (2010). “Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type”, p.66, Hachette UK

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• My wheelchair was the key to seeing all this happen—especially since God’s power always shows up best in weakness. So here I sit … glad that I have not been healed on the outside, but glad that I have been healed on the inside. Healed from my own self-centered wants and wishes.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Keys, Self, Wish

  Joni Eareckson Tada (2010). “A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God's Sovereignty”, p.49, David C Cook

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• At some glad moment was it nature's choice to dower a scrap of sunset with a voice?

  Edgar Fawcett

  Sunset, Voice, Choices

  Edgar Fawcett (1878). “Fantasy and Passion”

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• Deep down inside we know that the best gifts don't come from catalogs or shopping malls. They don't come in brightly-colored packages or fancy envelopes and they're not sitting under a tree somewhere... The best gifts come from the heart. They come when we look at each other, REALLY look at each other and say 'You mean a lot to me' or 'I'm so glad you're a part of my life.' A gift like that will never go out of style or be forgotten or be returned for a different size. A gift like that can change the world.

  Ron Atchison

  Mean, Heart, Shopping

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• Be grateful for your life, every detail of it,
  and your face will come to shine like a sun,
  and everyone who sees it will
  be made glad and peaceful.

  Rumi

  Grateful, Shining, Peaceful

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• Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.

  George Washington

  Enemy, May, Misfortunes

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• I don't know how music works, I'm just glad that it does.

  Lou Brutus

  Doe, Know How, Knows

  Twitter post from Mar 28, 2017

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• I don’t have a problem baring my emotions in music. That’s one of the reasons I’m glad to have music in my life. I’m pretty resilient as far as being a human being. A lot of songs write themselves.

  Shelby Lynne

  Song, Writing, Emotion

  "Country-pop star Shelby Lynne: an unfiltered original". Atlanta Journal-Constitution interview, www.denverpost.com. January 19, 2012.

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• I am glad there are things in the Bible I do not understand. If I could take that book up and read it as I would any other book, I might think I could write a book like that.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Bible, Book, Writing

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• When you're glad to be alive, good ideas come. The reason good ideas don't come today is because we're all bottled up with greed and anger. We're mad.

  Ray Manzarek

  Ideas, Mad, Greed

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• This is a lifelong dream of mine and I'm very very glad to be with you.

  Diana Nyad

  Dream, Lifelong, Mines

  "Diana Nyad becomes first to swim from Cuba to Florida without shark cage" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. September 02, 2013.

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• One day it was about getting married that mother talked with me, and I said I was so glad that when you didn't like being married, or got tired of your husband, you could get Unmarried.

  Eleanor Porter

  Mother, Husband, Tired

  Eleanor H. Porter (2008). “Mary Marie (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)”, p.38, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Without running, I would have missed the joy of rain. What could be considered an inconvenience or a bummer to the inexperienced is actually a gift. Without running, I would miss a lot of things-like seeing cities in a certain way, or knowing certain people all the way to the core. I'm glad we don't experience life through glass, under cover, or from the sidelines. Good things take miles.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Running, Rain, Glasses

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• As long as we are flippant and stupid and shallow and think that we know ourselves, we shall never give ourselves over to Jesus Christ; but when once we become conscious that we are infinitely more than we can fathom, and infinitely greater in possibility either for good or bad than we can know, we shall be only too glad to hand ourselves over to Him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, Christian, Religious

  Oswald Chambers, Harry Verploegh (1990). “The Oswald Chambers Devotional Reader: 52 Weekly Themes”, Oliver-Nelson Books

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• I say to myself, go on seeking, be glad for being sensitive, be glad you're able to go beyond the resistance inside you. It is our resistance to what we experience that makes creativity possible. So don't get rid of resistance like that by going around it or trying to eliminate it. Our own limitations put up strong resistance, but it's because of that that we are creators

  Brother Roger

  Strong, Creativity, Trying

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• Happiness is the choice I make today. It does not rest on my circumstances, but on my frame of mind...In cultivating the habits of happiness, I attract the people and situations that match its frequency. I smile more often, give praise more often, give thanks more often, and am glad more often. For such is my choice today.

  Marianne Williamson

  People, Giving, Choices

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