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| Living Deliberately
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
-- Henry David Thoreau
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| Going Far
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.
-- George Washington Carver
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| Understanding
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
-- Marie Curie
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| Making Plans
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
-- John Lennon
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| The Trap
The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.
-- Henri Nouwen
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| Protecting Life
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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| Barrenness
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
-- Socrates
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| Doing Nothing
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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| Appreciation
What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.
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| Free Space
We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.
-- Max de Pree
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| Searching
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
-- Albert Camus
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| To Love
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
-- Samuel Butler
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| Eyes Open
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
-- Bob Marley
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| Enemies
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
-- Winston Churchill
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| Reality
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
-- Lao Tzu
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| The Present
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
-- Buddha
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| Dealing with People
Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
-- Will Smith
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| Moments
We do not remember days, we remember moments.
-- Cesare Pavese
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| The Years
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln
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| A Dream?
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
-- Sholom Aleichem
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| Simplicity
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
-- Confucius
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| Finding Yourself
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw
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| Life
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
-- Soren Kierkegaard
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| Too Serious
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
-- Herodotus
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| Don't be a Pessimist
Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
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