“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.” ~~ Charlotte Bronte
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“Just living is not enough… One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” ~~ Hans Christian Anderson
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“We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.” ~~ William Osler
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“Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” ~~ Mark Twain
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“Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and a passionate thing.” ~~ Oliver Wendall Holmes
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“Life is half spent before one knows what life is.” ~~ French Proverb
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“The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.” ~~ Eliot Hubbard
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“The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.” ~~ Thomas Jefferson
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“Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.” ~~ Garrison Keillor
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“We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.” ~~ Nietzsche
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“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.” ~~ Thoreau
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“ Life is a song – sing it.
Life is a game - play it.
Life is a challenge - meet it.
Life is a dream - realize it.
Life is a sacrifice – offer it.
Life is love - enjoy it.”
~~ Sai Baba
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“Our lives end the day we become silent about things that matter.” ~~ Martin Luther King Jr.
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“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.” ~~ James Dean
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“Life isn’t about keeping score.
It’s not about how many people call you and it’s not about who you’ve dated, are dating
or haven’t dated at all.
It isn’t about who you’ve kissed, what sport you play, or which guy or girl likes you.
It’s not about your shoes or your hair or the color of your skin or where you live or go to school.
In fact, it’s not about grade, money, clothes, or colleges that accept you or not.
Life isn’t about if you have lots of friends, or if you are alone, and it’s not about how
accepted or unaccepted you are.
Life just isn’t about that.
But life is about who you love and who you hurt.
It’s about how you feel about yourself.
It’s about trust, happiness, and compassion.
It’s about sticking up for your friends and replacing inner hate with love.
Life is about avoiding jealously, overcoming ignorance, and building confidence.
It’s about what you say and what you mean.
It’s about seeing people for who they are and not what they have.
Most of all, it is about choosing to use your life to touch someone else’s in a way that
could never have been achieved otherwise.
These choices are what life’s about.” ~~ Nike ad
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“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. “ ~~ Theodore Roosevelt
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“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” ~~ Sir Winston Churchill
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“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” ~~ Theodore Roosevelt
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“The men who try to do something and fail are indefinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.” ~~ Lloyd Jones
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“It is not what they take away from you that counts. It’s what you do with what you have left.” ~~ Hubert Humphrey
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“What we focus on determines what we miss- and what we become.” ~~ unknown
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“We can’t become what we need to be by remaining what we are.” ~~ Oprah Winfrey
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“I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect.” ~~ Julius Irving
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“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” ~~ Helen Keller
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“Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn a brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.” ~~ George Bernard Show
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“And in the end it’s not the years in you life that count. It’s the life in your years.” ~~ Abraham Lincoln
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“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.” ~~ Danny Kaye
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“Life is a mixture of living and longing, learning and growing, with loving and laughing filling in the gaps in between.” ~~ Megan
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“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.” ~~ Helen Keller
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“Now is the age of anxiety.” ~~ W. H. Auden
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“God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.” ~~ Voltaire
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“Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.” ~~ Evan Hardin
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“I used to always think that I’d look back on us crying and laugh, but I never thought I’d look back on us laughing and cry.” ~~ unknown
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“The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past; you can't go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.” ~~ unknown
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“When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling.
Live your life so that when you die, you're smiling and everyone around you is crying.” ~~ unknown
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“There are moments in life when you miss someone so much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real! Hope you dream of that special someone.” ~~ unknown
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“Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.” ~~ unknown
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“Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.” ~~ Herbert Spencer
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“Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.” ~~ Charles Feidelson, Jr.
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“The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts life.” ~~ William James
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“Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.” ~~ Stephen Vincent Benét
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“We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.” ~~ William Osler
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“Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” ~~ Mark Twain
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“A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.” ~~ Carl Sandburg
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“Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.” ~~ Elbert Hubbard
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“Life is the childhood of our immortality.” ~~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.” ~~ Fulton J. Sheen
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“Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.” ~~ Jean de La Bruyère
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“Life is a dead-end street.” ~~ H. L. Mencken
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“The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.” ~~ James Matthew Barrie
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“It is not true that life is one damn thing after another...It's one damn thing over and over.” ~~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
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“May you live all the days of your life.” ~~ Jonathan Swift
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“Simply the thing I am shall make me live.” ~~ William Shakespeare
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“Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.” ~~ Robert Southwell
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“Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.” ~~ Stephen Butler Leacock
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“The forest is magnificent, yet it contains no perfect trees.” ~~ Gye Fram
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“All our lives we sweat and save, building for a shallow grave.” ~~ James Douglas Morrison
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“Never take life too seriously; after all, no one gets out of it alive.” ~~ Anonymous
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“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.” ~~ Antoine De Saint-Éxupery
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“The way the world looks depends on how you're sitting.” ~~ Unknown
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“Life is like nothing I've ever seen.” ~~ Arthur Penn
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“My father didn’t tell me how to live, he lived and let me watch him do it” ~~ Clarence Kelland
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“Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.” ~~ Supreme Court Justice, Earl Warren
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“Life is composed of moments and you must take those moments when they come” ~~ Dawson’s Creek (TV show 1998)
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“Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.” ~~ Van Kaam
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“Life is what happens while we're busy making other plans.” ~~ John Lennon
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“We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.” ~~ Cullen Hightower
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“We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.” ~~ Syrus
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“Some mornings it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.” ~~ Need
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“The sin is not falling down, but staying down.” ~~ Unknown
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“Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.” ~~ Emerson
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“Respect cannot be learned, purchased, or acquired; it can only be earned.” ~~ Bits & Pieces
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“The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe that the best is yet to come.” ~~ Peter Ustinov
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“You can live to be a hundred if you give up all things that make you want to live to be a hundred.” ~~ Allen
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“A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't.” ~~ Bacharach
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“Civilization is a little citadel of light in a malignant sea of darkness.” ~~ Auden
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“Life is a swirling eddy of despair in an ever blackening universe.” ~~ Anonymous
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“I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.” ~~ MacIver
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“To live will be the greatest adventure of all.” ~~ Banning
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“Life is a joke that's just begun.” ~~ Gilbert
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“The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.” ~~ William Shakespeare
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“We're all in this alone.” ~~ Lily Tomlin
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“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.” ~~ Frost
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“Life is far too serious a thing to ever talk seriously about.” ~~ Wilde
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“Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.” ~~ Livy
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“There's none so blind as they won't see.” ~~ Swift
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“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.” ~~ Ali
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“Is life worth living? That depends on the liver.” ~~ Anonymous
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“Every man dies; not every man lives.” ~~ Unknown
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“Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.” ~~ David Letterman
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“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” ~~ Buddha
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“It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.” ~~ James Augustine
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“Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.” ~~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“A book may be compared to the life of your neighbor. If it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.” ~~ H. Brooke
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“A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.” ~~ George Bernard Shaw
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“After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside without her... I should be sorry to have that voice fall silent and pass out of my life.” ~~ Mark Twain
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“All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.” ~~ George Bernard Shaw
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“Don't take life to serious, it ain't nowhow permanent.” ~~ Albert Alligator
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“Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.” ~~ James Bryant Conant
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“Few have heard of Fra Luca Parioli, the inventor of double entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.” ~~ Herbert J. Muller
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“Life offers two great gifts time, and the ability to choose how we spend it. Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us.” ~~ Richard I. Winwood
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“Why not spend some time in determining what is worthwhile for us, and then go after that?” ~~ William Ross
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“Her life was saved by rock and roll.” ~~ Lou Reed
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“Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.” ~~ Langston Hughes
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“I can handle reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle it's much too confining.” ~~ Lilly Tomlin
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“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.” ~~ Oscar Wilde
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“If life had a vomit meter, we'd be off the scale.” ~~ Joe Bob Briggs
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“If life is a bowl of cherries then what am I doing in the pits.” ~~ Erma Bombeck
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“In every trade and pursuit of life both the rich and the poor are to be found.” ~~ Talmud
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“It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.” ~~ Freeman Dyson
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“Life has a value only when it has something valuable as its
object.” ~~ Hegel
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“Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” ~~ Thomas Hobbes
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“Life is a banquet and most poor son of a bitches are starving out there... So Live!” ~~ Auntie Mame
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“Life is a process, not a principle, a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.” ~~ Gerard Straub
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“Life is a series of rude awakenings.” ~~ R. Van Winkle
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“Life is just a party and parties weren't meant to last.” ~~ Prince
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“Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by day, in all the thousand, small, uncaring ways.” ~~ Stephen V. Benet
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“Life is to be enjoyed and if it is not, it makes people ill in one way or another.” ~~ Louise Bogan
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“Life is wasted on the living.” ~~ Zaphod Beeblebrox IV
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“Life itself is a race, marked by a start, and a finish. It is what we learn during the race, and how we apply it, that determines whether our participation has had particular value.” ~~ Dr. Porsche
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“Life's the same, except for the shoes.” ~~ The Cars
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“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.” ~~ John Keats
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“Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.” ~~ Eric Hoffer
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“The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle: they're on TV!” ~~ Homer Simpson
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“The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.” ~~ Immanuel Kant
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“The business of life is to go forward.” ~~ Samuel Johnson
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“The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy. The glad man is he who does not lose his child's heart.” ~~ K'ung Futse.
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“The life which is unexamined is not worth living.” ~~ Plato
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“There is no wealth but life.” ~~ John Ruskin
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“Trifles make the sum of life.” ~~ Charles Dickens
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“What I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.” ~~ Charles Dickens
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“You can't make a life over society wouldn't let you if you would.” ~~ Mark Twain
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“A well-tied tie is the first in life.” ~~ Oscar Wilde
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“He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed.” ~~ David Frost
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“To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.” ~~ Eric Hoffer
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“Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk.” ~~ Cyril Connolly
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“The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence.” ~~ Art Linkletter
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“Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.” ~~ Wilson Mizner
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“Life is too short for men to take it seriously.” ~~ George Bernard Shaw
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“There is more to life than increasing its speed.” ~~ Mahatma Gandhi
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“It is no wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.” ~~ Kingsley Amis
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“Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired.” ~~ R. Geis
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“Those who say life is worth living at any cost have already written for themselves an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person they will not betray to stay alive.” ~~ Sidney Hook
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“It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.” ~~ Aristotle
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“Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how.'” ~~ Frank Victor
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“In the morning when we rise from bed, although surprised to find ourselves still alive, we are even more amazed to find everything just as we left it the night before.” ~~ Tommaso Landolfi
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“Woke up this morning and found myself dead.” ~~ Anonymous
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“The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death.” ~~ Samuel Johnson
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“The life which is unexamined is not worth living.” ~~ Plato
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“The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.” ~~ Thomas Jefferson
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“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.” ~~ William Faulkner
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“Afraid of death? One should be afraid of life, not death.” ~~ Marlene Dietrich
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“Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.” ~~ Annie Lennox
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“Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.” ~~ Mark Twain
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“Death tugs at my ear and says: "Live, I am coming." ~~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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“The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is, rather, born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life.” ~~ Eric Hoffer
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“To live long, it is necessary to live slowly.” ~~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?” ~~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.” ~~ George Santayana
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“All of the animals excepting man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.” ~~ Samuel Butler
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“All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing.” ~~ Maurice Maeterlinck
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“Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero! (Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!)” ~~ Horace
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“I don't really believe there is a 'meaning' to life. I think life is simply a fact which we have to accept, for better or worse. It is up to us to provide meanings implicitly through our work and our behavior and our affections and our pleasures. Sometimes they seem enough, sometimes they don't. It is, above all, a question of patience.” ~~ Al Alverez
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“Life may at times be boring, but is it more fun to be dead?” ~~ Alcor Life Extension Foundation
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“Living is not breathing but doing.” ~~ Rousseau
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“Let us work without theorizing; it is the only way to make life endurable.” ~~ Voltaire
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“There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.” ~~ Herman Melville
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“It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; as soon as we sober again we see that it is all a delusion, and a stupid one!” ~~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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“Every age is fed on illusions, lest man should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.” ~~ Joseph Conrad
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“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.” ~~ Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
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“This life is a test. It is only a test. Had this been an actual life, you would have received further instructions as to what to do and where to go. You may or may not be issued an actual life later.” ~~ Unknown
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“Life is too short.” ~~ Bart Gold
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“If only Mama Cass shared that ham sandwich with Karen Carpenter, they both might be alive today.” ~~ Anonymous
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“We're all in this alone.” ~~ Jane Wagner
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“Life is just one damned thing after another.” ~~ Elbert Green Hubbard
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“It is not true that life is one damn thing after another it's one damn thing over and over.” ~~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
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“Those who will not reason / Perish in the act: / Those who will not act / Perish for that reason.” ~~ Wystan Hugh Auden
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“We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” ~~ Thomas Stearns Eliot
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“He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it”. ~~ Douglas Adams
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“What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.” ~~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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“The principle of maximum diversity operates both at the physical and at the mental level. It says that the laws of nature and the initial conditions are such as to make the universe as interesting as possible. As a result, life is possible but not too easy. Always when things are dull, something new turns up to challenge us and to stop us from settling into a rut. Examples of things which make life difficult are all around us: comet impacts, ice ages, weapons, plagues, nuclear fission, computers, sex, sin and death. Not all challenges can be overcome, and so we have tragedy. Maximum diversity often leads to maximum stress. In the end we survive, but only by the skin of our teeth.” ~~ Freeman Dyson
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“Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.” ~~ Mark Twain
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“Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.” ~~ Henry David Thoreau
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“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.” ~~ George Bernard Shaw
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“There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.” ~~ Werner Karl Heisenberg
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“Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.” ~~ Karl Kraus
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“Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.” ~~ Bertolt Brecht
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“To morrow, and to morrow, and to morrow, Creeps in the petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way of dusty death. Out, out brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.” ~~ William Shakespeare
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“For my own part, regret nothing. Have lived life, free from compromise... and step into the shadow now without complaint.” ~~ Hermann Rorschach
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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 order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible directions; if in order to get into a locked room, he were to buy ten thousand casual keys, and try them all; if, in order to have a house, he were to build a town, and leave all the other houses to wind and weather assuredly no one would call such proceedings purposeful and still less would anyone conjecture behind these proceedings a higher wisdom, unrevealed reasons, and superior prudence." ~~ J. W. N. Sullivan
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“Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase "being born" is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while "dying" means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.” ~~ Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid)
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“Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty five years and you pay it back and then one day you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then one day you step off a curb at Sixty seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.” ~~ Denis Leary
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“Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.” ~~ Theodore Roosevelt
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“What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.” ~~ Crowfoot (Sahpo Muxika)
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“People find life entirely too time consuming.” ~~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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“Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.” ~~ Richard Bach
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“The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” ~~ Richard Bach
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“Time runs backwards, at the end / You turn into a child again / Then you're dust.” ~~ Robyn Hitchcock
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“Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness, and mere oblivion; sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.” ~~ William Shakespeare
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“It's all so painfully empty and lonesome.... I don't think I can stand any more of it...the whole dreadful way we are born, die, and are never missed. The fact there is _nobody_...nobody really.... We come out of a yawning tomb of flesh and sink back finally into another tomb. What is the point of it all? Who thought up this sickening circle of flesh and blood? We come into the world bleeding and cut and our bones half crushed only to emerge and suffer more torment, mutilation, and then at the last lie down in some hole in the ground forever. Who could have thought it up, I wonder?” ~~ James Purdy
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“Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.” ~~ Bertrand Russell
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“Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.” ~~ Jean Paul Sartre
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“Often it is fatal to live too long.” ~~ Jean Racine
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‘Mourn not the dead... But rather mourn the apathetic throng The cowed and meek Who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, And dare not speak.” ~~ Ralph Chaplin
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“We are always getting ready to live, but never living.” ~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.” ~~ Benjamin Disraeli
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“The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.” ~~ Arthur Schopenhauer
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“We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness; it is always urgent, "here and now," without any possible postponement.” Life is fired at us point blank.” ~~ José Ortega y Gasset
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“A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.” ~~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone.” ~~ Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
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“Excess of grief for the deceased is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.” ~~ Xenephon
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“A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.” ~~ Thomas Mann
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“Life is to the universe as rust is to iron. We are, in the final judgment (on a planetary scale, certainly), nothing more than an advanced form of corrosion, just one more way for the universe to wear itself out a little faster” ~~ Solomon Short
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“Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.” ~~ Heinrich Heine
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“If we don't know life, how can we know death?” ~~ Confucius
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“Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks; Birth, copulation and death.” ~~ Thomas Stearns Eliot
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“Sic transit gloria mundi. [So passes away the glory of this world]”
~~ Thomas a' Kempis
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“Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? ... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.” ~~ Alan Paton
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“Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.” ~~ Socrates
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“When people are starving, life is no longer meaningless.” ~~ John Gardner
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“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” ~~ Norman Cousins
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“Life is a serious burden, which no thinking, humane person would wantonly inflict on someone else.” ~~ Clarence Seward Darrow
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“If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.” ~~ John Galsworthy
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“It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear, on the contrary, that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning.” ~~ Albert Camus
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“The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them.... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.” ~~ Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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“When one has great gifts, what answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise them?” ~~ Wystan Hugh Auden
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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 the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.” ~~ George Washington Carver
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“No one imagines that symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.” ~~ Alan Wilson Watts
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“Those who hate to go to bed fear death; those who hate to get up fear life.” ~~ Wystan Hugh Auden
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“There is nothing I desire more to be informed of, than the death of men: that is to say, what words, what countenance, and what face they show at their death.... Were I a composer of books, I would keep a register, commented of the diverse deaths, which in teaching men to die, should after teach them to live.” ~~ Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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“The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” ~~ William James
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“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.” ~~ Carl Gustave Jung
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“This is thy hour, O Soul; Thy free flight into the wordless
Away from books, from art. The day erased; the lesson done.
Thee fully forth emerging, Silent, gazing...” ~~ unknown
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“Pondering the themes thou lovest best:
Night, sleep, death, and the stars.” ~~ Walt Whitman
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“Life is what you are doing when you aren’t sleeping.” ~~ Aric Hall 1999
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