Life Quotes

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
@James Allen
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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
@Charles Darwin
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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
@Gautama Buddha
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Be the change that you want to see in the world.
@Mahatma Gandhi
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An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
@Mahatma Gandhi
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Spend the afternoon, You can't take it with you.
@Annie Dillard
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True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.
@Ralph Washington Sockman
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The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
@Ralph Washington Sockman
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A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.
@Ralph Washington Sockman
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Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
@Ralph Washington Sockman
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Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
@Ralph Washington Sockman
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Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength.
@Ralph Washington Sockman
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Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.
@Ralph Washington Sockman
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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'
@Ralph Washington Sockman
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Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
@Albert Einstein
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If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.
@William Shakespeare
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Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.
@Mary Anne Radmacher
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If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
@Erica Jong
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The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
@Tom Bodett
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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
@Tom Bodett
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You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.
@Tom Bodett
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The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
@Tom Bodett
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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.
@Unknown
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Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
@Dr. Seuss
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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
@Maya Angelou
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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
@Mae West
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
@Robert Frost
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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
@John Lennon
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To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
@Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
@Mark Twain
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
@Anais Nin
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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
@J. K. Rowling
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Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt 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 nonsense.
@Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.
@Woody Allen
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Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
@Dr. Seuss
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Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.
@Dr. Seuss
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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
@Dale Carnegie
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Everything you can imagine is real.
@Pablo Picasso
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Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
@Dale Carnegie
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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
@Mark Twain
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If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But 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.
@E. B. White
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I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
@Jimi Hendrix
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
@Margaret Mead
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Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think.
@Dale Carnegie
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
@Oscar Wilde
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Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
@Dale Carnegie
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Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
@Dale Carnegie
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
@Dale Carnegie
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The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
@Dale Carnegie
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Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
@Albert Einstein
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Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.
@John Wayne Gacy
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Life is to be enjoyed, not endured.
@Gordon B. Hinckley
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
@George Bernard Shaw
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The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.
@Unknown
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It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.
@Sarah Dessen
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Sometimes our flame goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.
@Albert Schweitzer
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
@Albert Camus
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Live to the point of tears.
@Albert Camus
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Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.
@Natalie Babbitt
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I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.
@Bill Watterson
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The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
@Groucho Marx
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The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
@Lily Tomlin
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
@Anais Nin
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Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
@Anais Nin
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Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.
@Jodi Picoult
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The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
@Tom Clancy
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
@Soren Kierkegaard
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There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...
@John Lennon
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We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
@Paulo Coelho
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Sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!
@Sophie Kinsella
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I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.
@Mae West
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Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong'. Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.
@Charles M. Schulz
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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!
@Hunter S. Thompson
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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
@Guillaume Apollinaire
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No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.
@Hunter S. Thompson
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They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!
@Dr. Seuss
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The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.
@Kalu, Kalat
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Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.
@Aldous Huxley
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It's not the men in your life that matters, it's the life in your men.
@Mae West
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We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.
@Anais Nin
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Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
@Hunter S. Thompson
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You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.
@Alexander McCall Smith
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A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
@Lois Wyse
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Reality continues to ruin my life.
@Bill Watterson
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Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
@Paul Tournier
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Sadness is a wall between two gardens.
@Kahlil Gibran
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We routinely disqualify testimony that would plead for extenuation. That is, we are so persuaded of the rightness of our judgment as to invalidate evidence that does not confirm us in it. Nothing that deserves to be called truth could ever be arrived at by such means.
@Marilynne Robinson
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Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.
@Unknown
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Sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can fall together!
@Marilyn Monroe
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I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
@Dr. Seuss
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Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.
@Dr. Seuss
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Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
@Garrison Keillor
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What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.
@Suzanne Collins
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It's all very complex. Or else it's very simple. Or perhaps both. Or neither.
@Unknown
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Sometimes there is a thing as too much therapy.
@Brett Butler
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If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
@Anton Chekhov
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To see what is what's in front of one's own nose is a constant struggle.
@George Orwell
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Don't be afraid of mistakes, there aren't any.
@Unknown
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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
@Joseph Chilton Pearce
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In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you sane.
@Leo Buscaglia
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Leap and the net will appear.
@Julia Cameron
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If you don't know what to do, the answer is to stop doing everything you don't want to do, and then whatever is left is what you do want to do. If there is nothing left, then this leaves things wide open for the thing you do want to do to come along.
@Don Joyce
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We have to live our lives as if we are dying of a fatal disease. Because we are.
@Phineas Narco
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We may think in life that we are going around in circles. In reality it is like ascending a spiral staircase. From above it looks like we are going around in circles.Try to view it from the side.
@Onan Canobite
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We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's model's, learn to be ourselve's, and allow our natural channel to open.
@Shakti Gawain
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Life is trying things to see if they work.
@Ray Bradbury
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Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass…It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.
@Vivian Green
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Letting go has never been easy, but holding on can be as difficult. Yet strength is measured not by holding on, but by letting go.
@Len Santos
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Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
@Bob Newhart
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The 3 C’s of life: choices, chances, and changes. You must make a choice to take a chance or your life will never change.
@Unknown
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The only way to live happily ever after is to do it one day at a time.
@Unknown
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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
@Elbert Hubbard
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It’s sad, but sometimes moving on with the rest of your life — starts with goodbye.
@Carrie Underwood
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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
@Helen Keller
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Action is the real measure of intelligence.
@Napoleon Hill
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Life comes down to one thing - FAMILY. Happy Thanksgiving!
@Dwayne Johnson
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I've intimidated men my entire life and it has nothing to do with fame.
@Anne Hathaway
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You can alter movie singing so much because you go into the recording studio and, just technology for recording has gotten so good, you can hold out a note and they can combine a note from take 2 and a note from take 8.
@Anne Hathaway
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I look my best after an entire hair and makeup team has spent hours perfecting me. When do I feel my best? When I haven't looked in a mirror for days, and I'm doing things that make me happy.
@Anne Hathaway
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One day you will ask me which is more important? my life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
@Kahlil Gibran
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To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.
@Michael Jordan
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I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty six times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
@Michael Jordan
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
@Henry David Thoreau
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A life without challenge, a life without hardship, a life without purpose, seems pale and pointless. With challenge come perseverance and gumption. With hardship come resilience and resolve. With purpose come strength and understanding.
@Terry Fallis
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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
@Albert Einstein
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Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.
@Douglas Adams
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One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.
@A. A. Milne
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
@Francis Bacon
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Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.
@Marc Chagall
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Life

noun

the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death.

Example: the origins of life