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Erma Bombeck
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me".
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Erma Bombeck
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me".
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old no
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Swedish Proverb
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Fear less, hope more;Whine less, breathe more;Talk less, say more;Hate less, love more;And all good things are yours.
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Anon.
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Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.
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Douglas Adams
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Every time you wake up and ask yourself, What good things am I going to do today?, remember that when the sun goes down at sunset, it will take a part of your life with it.
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Proverb
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another version ends with what lies within us
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Richard Bach
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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
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Cyril Connolly
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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainty that just to be alive is a grand thing.
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Tony Dorsett
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Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turn before we have learnt to walk.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is no Gain in the world: so be it: but neither is there any Loss. There is never any failure to this infinite freshness of life, and the ancient novelty is forever renewed. We realize the world better if we imagine it, not as a Progress to Prim Perf
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Jim Fiebig
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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old n
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Johann von Goethe
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Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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Hermann Hesse
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Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until so
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William James
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I wanted only to try to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?
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W. M. Lewis
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The gains in life come slowly and the losses come on suddenly. You work for years to get your life the way you want it and buy the big house and the time share on Antigua and one afternoon you???re run down by a garbage truck and lie in the intersection, da
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Herman Melville
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Tell me not, in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dream!For the soul is dead that slumbers,and things are not what they seem.Life is real! Life is earnest!And the grave is not its goal;Dust thou art; to dust returnest,Was not spoken of the soul.
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Warren Miller
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My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends--
It gives a lovely light!
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O. Henry
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We are great fools: He has spent his life in idleness. We say, I have done nothing today. Really, have you not lived? This is not only the most fundamental but the most illustrious of your occupations??? Have you been able to think about and manage you
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William W. Purkey
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Bertrand Russell
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Purkey is the source of this quotation that is attributed to many others: it was made popular in the song Come From The Heart written by Susannah Clark and Richard Leigh. Purkey closed his speeches with this poem and it has now made it into the public d
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Jeremy Schwartz
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What else is there to make life tolerable? We stand on the shore of an ocean, crying to the night and to emptiness. Sometimes a voice of one drowning, and in a moment the silence returns. The world seems to me quite dreadful, the unhappiness of many peopl
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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Life is no brief candle for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
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In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.
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Henry Van Dyke
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Before the beginning of years
There came to the making of man
Time, with a gift of tears;
Grief, with a glass that ran;
Pleasure, with pain for leaven;
Summer, with flowers that fell;
Remembrance, fallen from heaven,
And madness risen from hel
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Horace Walpole
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Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we fight with cranes; it is error upon error, and clout upon clout, and our best virtue has for its occasion a superfluous and evitable wretche
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Edward Young
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Life itself is a matter of salesmanship.
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Virginia Woolf
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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.
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Colin Wilson
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Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to live and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
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Edward Young
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So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life, and whether this is living.
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E. B. White
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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
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Henry David Thoreau
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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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Charles M. Schulz
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I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
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William Lyon Phelps
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The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
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Anais Nin
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
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Arthur Miller
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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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H. L. Mencken
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
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Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
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David Lodge
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Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.
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Fran Lebowitz
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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Barbara Kingsolver
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Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.
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Barbara Kingsolver
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
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Garrison Keillor
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God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
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Karen Horney
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Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
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Karen Horney
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
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Karen Horney
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Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.
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Karen Horney
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Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?
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Karen Horney
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Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
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Unknown
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Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks different through everyone's eyes.
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Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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Life Is A Challenge - Meet It Life Is A Song - Sing It Life Is A Dream - Realize It Life Is A Game - Play It Life Is Love - Enjoy It
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B. J. Gupta
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There are two messages from theory of Karma. Our condition in this life is determined by our deeds in previous life. We must do good in this life to improve our conditions in next life.
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E. B. White
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You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.
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Albert Einstein
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What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.
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Henry Miller
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A man of good will with a little effort and belief in his own powers can enjoy a deep, tranquil, rich life -- provided he go his own way. He need not and should not think of making a good living, but rather of creating a good life for himself. To live one's own life is still the best way of life, always was, and always will be.
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Bitterness imprisons life love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life love empowers it. Bitterness sours life love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life love heals it. Bitterness blinds life love anoints its eyes.
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Phillips Brooks
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Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
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Archibald MacLeish
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It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.
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Rabindranath Tagore
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The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.
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Erich Fromm
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That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life; he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man,
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Michael Landon
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Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.
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Erik H. Erickson
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These same experiences make of the sequence of life cycles a generational cycle, irrevocably binding each generation to those that gave it life and to those for whose life it is responsible. Thus, reconciling lifelong generativity and stagnation involves
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Bruce Kemper
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Age, health, and stage in life have nothing to do with serving or not serving. In each season of life there are attributes and qualities of life and experience that God values in service.
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Stephen Hawking
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I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
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Chris Evert Lloyd
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If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment... quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.
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Hubert Humphrey
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It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
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Clare Boothe Luce
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...the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life; the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
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George Bernard Shaw
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Let me give you one definition of ethics: It is good to maintain life and to further life; it is bad to damage and destroy life. And this ethic, profound, universal, has the significance of a religion. It is religion.
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John F. Kennedy
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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.
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Rita Mae Brown
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A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
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Paul E. Pfuetze
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Now the alternative to despair is courage. And human life can be viewed as a continuous struggle between these two options. Courage is the capacity to affirm one's life in spite of the elements which threaten it. The fact that courage usually predominates over despair in itself tells us something important about life. It tells you that the forces that affirm life are stronger than those that negate it.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Tell me not, in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dreamFor the soul is dead that slumbers,and things are not what they seem.Life is real Life is earnestAnd the grave is not its goalDust thou art to dust returnest,Was not spoken of the soul.
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Adam R. Gwizdala
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Life goes through changes so fast, you think your life is great, than one of your best friends dies. Then you think you found someone you truly love, only to figure out, she doesn't love you back. You cry and cry and cry, but nothing changes. You realize, that you must accept things for what they are, and what they have made you become.Everything in life changes you in some way. Even the smallest things. If you do not accept these changes, you do not accept yourself. For through these changes brings new and greater things to you, making you wiser, as time progresses. To avoid these changes is a loss. You only live your life once. Do not waste a minute of it avoiding things. Let them come to you, and learn from them. There's always tomorrow.
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Herman Melville
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Tell me not, in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dream!For the soul is dead that slumbers,and things are not what they seem.Life is real! Life is earnest!And the grave is not its goal;Dust thou art; to dust returnest,Was not spoken of the soul.
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Erich Fromm
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That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.
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The Sufi
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Look to this day,For it is life, the very life of life.In its brief course lie all the verities and realities of your existencethe bliss of growth, the glory of action, the splendor of beauty.For yesterday is but a dreamAnd tomorrow is only a vision,But today well lived makesevery yesterday a dream of happinessand every tomorrow a vision of hope.Look well, therefore to this day,such is the salutation of the dawn.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Hatred paralyzes life love releases it. Hatred confuses life love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life love illumines it.
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Arbie M. Dale
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To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.
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Kahlil Gibran
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When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
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Nina Berberova
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I had learnt to seek intensitymore of life, a concentrated sense of life.
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Will Rogers
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Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
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Florence Nightingale
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Live you life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift - there is nothing small about it.
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Albert Einstein
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The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.
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Helen Hayes
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Life ... would give her everything of consequence, life would shape her, not we. All we were good for was to make the introductions.
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Joshua J. Marine
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Challenges are what make life interesting overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
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Thomas Paine
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Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
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W. E. B. Du Bois
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Believe in life Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.
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Frederick Buechner
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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.
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Roosevelt, Eleanor
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Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
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James Truslow Adams
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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Benjamin Franklin
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Dost thou love life Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
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Ellen Stugis Hooper
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I slept and dreamed that life was beauty.I awoke -- and found that life was duty.
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Francis William Bourdillon
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The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.
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Clarence Darrow
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We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
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Oscar Wilde
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One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.
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Benjamin Franklin
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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things.
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Charles Feidelson, Jr.
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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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James Baldwin
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Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.
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If there is a sin against life, it consist perhaps not so much in despairing of life as hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. Albert Camus
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If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
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Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
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Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought h
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It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the han
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This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No o
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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
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Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.
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Dost thou love life? Than do not squander time, for it is the stuff life is made of.
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The mind has a thousand eyes.
And the heart but one;
Yet the life of a whole life dies
When love is done.
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I think wholeness comes from living your life consciously during the day and then exploring your inner life or unconscious at night.
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After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
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Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside.
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True wisdom is seeing what is beneficial to your eternal life, and managing your life according to that. You do this when you not only know these things and grasp them with your understanding, but also will and do them.
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Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.
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...A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
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It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
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A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.
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Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having.
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We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
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I had learnt to seek intensity???more of life, a concentrated sense of life.
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To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.
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Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
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This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.
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There isn???t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren???t really living without it.
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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
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Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.
But you are life and you are the veil.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
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Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nas
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Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
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I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, s
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If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a c
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As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible th
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
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For every living creature that succeeds in getting a footing in life there are thousands or millions that perish. There is an enormous random scattering for every seed that comes to life. This does not remind us of intelligent human design. If a man in o
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Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight-lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.
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...they no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers. It was as if they had lept over the arduous calvary of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, b
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Don???t think you are paying me some kind of tribute if you let my death become the great event of your life. The best tribute you can pay me as a mother is to go on and have a good and fulfilling life. Enjoy what you have.
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The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.
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I cannot believe that the purpose of life is (merely) to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. I think it is above all to matter, to count, to stand for something. To have it make some difference that
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When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.
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...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, g
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Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.
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When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
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She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within
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Play is an essential function of the passage from immaturity to emotional maturity. Any individual without the opportunities for adequate play in early life will go on seeking them in the stuff of adult life.
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