Life.
Reflections on existence, meaning, and what makes life rich.
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“You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.”
Paulo Coelho
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“Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.”
Paulo Coelho
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“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”
Elbert Hubbard
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“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”
Mark Twain
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“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”
Dr. Seuss
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“I must confess, I was born at a very early age.”
Groucho Marx
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“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”
Groucho Marx
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“No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.”
Peter Drucker
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“Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.”
Leo Tolstoy
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“Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.”
Elie Wiesel
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“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
Martin Luther King
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“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.”
Marcus Aurelius
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“If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.”
Seneca
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“I have discovered that all human evil comes from this: man's being unable to sit still and quiet in a room alone.”
Blaise Pascal
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“It’s never too late for a new beginning in your life.”
Joyce Meyer
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“Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.”
William J. Mayo
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“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.”
John C. Maxwell
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“You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.”
Anton Chekhov
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“It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power.”
Robert Kiyosaki
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“Nothing splendid has ever been achived except by those who dare belive that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.”
Bruce Barton
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“The truest fame, the fame that comes after death, is never heard of by its recipient; and yet he is called a happy man.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
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“It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.”
Alfred Adler
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“Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it is the only day we have.”
William Arthur Ward
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“Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.”
Anne Frank
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“Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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“One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”
Maya Angelou
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“If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.”
Charles Spurgeon
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“True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.”
Albert Einstein
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“Death hath a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one.”
Philip Massinger
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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.”
Marcus Aurelius
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“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.”
Aristotle
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“If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.”
Samuel Butler
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“To live happily is an inward power of the soul.”
Marcus Aurelius
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“When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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“All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.”
Erma Bombeck
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“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”
C.S Lewis
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“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
Marcus Aurelius
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“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
William Wordsworth
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“The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.”
Norman Cousins
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“When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.”
Winston Churchill
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“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
Soren Kierkegaard
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“We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it’s our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.”
Paulo Coelho
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“Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.”
Aristotle
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“It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.”
Bertrand Russell
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“If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.”
Alan Alexander Milne
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“Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope.”
Hal Lindsay
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“Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.”
Oliver Goldsmith
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“The man who is born with a talent which he is meant to use, finds his greatest happiness in using it.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe