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      "text": "Today, I will try to remember to regret the past. I will think of how many mistakes I have made throughout my life. I will say to myself, \"If only I could go back in time and make different choices, so that my life could be the way it should have been.\" Then I will remind myself that I cannot.",
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      "text": "If I take things slowly today in order to appreciate life better, and if I take time to listen to the messages that life sends me, then I will have less time to do the things I need to do today. Then tomorrow I will have to do everything that much faster and I will be that much more unable to appreciate life. It is dangerous to stop and smell the roses.",
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