When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door, that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

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There is nothing in life, that is as certain as change. It is not easy to leave our comfort zone, because there is always something good and something bad accompanied with change. The question is how we deal with it, when the wind of change come to our house - do we close the doors or build wind mills?

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