Life.
Reflections on existence, meaning, and what makes life rich.
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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
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“In ordinary life, we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
Marcus Aurelius
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“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”
William Shakespeare
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“I cannot live without books.”
Thomas Jefferson
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“The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”
Ayn Rand
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“Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.”
Mark Twain
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“Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.”
Erma Bombeck
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“He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.”
Marcus Aurelius
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“Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?”
Blaise Pascal
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“To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.”
Martin Luther
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“To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.”
Martin Luther
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“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it's how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.”
Paulo Coelho
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“Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.”
Jim Rohn
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“It is impossible to live pleasurably without living prudently, honorably, and justly; or to live prudently, honorably, and justly, without living pleasurably.”
Epicurus
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“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
Marcus Aurelius
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“One of the greatest problems people have with failure is that they are too quick to judge isolated situations in their lives and label them as failures. Instead, they need to keep the bigger picture in mind.”
John C. Maxwell
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“A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.”
Alexander Graham Bell
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“You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.”
Oliver Goldsmith
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“The same external events or circumstances affect no two people alike; even with perfectly similar surroundings every one lives in a world of his own.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
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“The same external events or circumstances affect no two people alike; even with perfectly similar surroundings every one lives in a world of his own.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
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“The reason why respect is paid to age is that old people have necessarily shown in the course of their lives whether or not they have been able to maintain their honor unblemished; while that of young people has not been put to the proof, though they are credited with the possession of it.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
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“When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.”
G.K. Chesterton
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“I was ashamed of myself when I realized that life was a costume party, and I attended with my real face.”
Franz Kafka
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“Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you are living?”
Bob Marley
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“If you are brave enough to say 'goodbye', life will reward you with a new 'hello'.”
Paulo Coelho
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“A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.”
William Arthur Ward
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“The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.”
John C. Maxwell
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“Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.”
Steve Jobs
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“To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.”
Samuel Butler
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“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.”
John Milton
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“Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.”
Publilius Syrus
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“I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.”
Billy Graham
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“I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.”
Alan Watts
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“The only way to achieve greatness is life is to have patience, consistency, and discipline.”
David Goggins
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“If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.”
Saint Augustine
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“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.”
Thomas Jefferson
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“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
Theodore Roosevelt
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“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”
Thomas Jefferson
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“Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.”
Les Brown
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“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.”
Samuel Butler
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“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
Mark Twain
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“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
Nelson Mandela
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“Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.”
Samuel Butler
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“Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”
Jean Paul Richter
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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.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
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“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”
Maya Angelou